WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0671. Fragmentary funerary text

Description: Fragments probably from the lower left-hand corner of a white marble panel (together, w: 0.115 x h: 0.155 x d: 0.015).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals: 0.035-0.045.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---]bal
[---]V sanu

Diplomatic

[---]BAL
[---]VSANU

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

-Bal 5(?) years

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

[ . . .]-bal lived 5 years

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 671, whence Elmayer, 1997, 5, IRT, 2009, 671, whence EDH 059523; this edition Kerr, 2010, 206 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified; Below: 671, 792, Unidentified: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.18)