Description:
block (w:
0.56 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.12) of grey limestone, damaged on the left side.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w:
0.44 x h:
0.36).
Letters: Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.04; line 2-6, 0.03.
Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
West Necropolis: "près d'un sépulchre récemment fouillé,
un peu avant d'arriver aux ruines de Leptis" (1903), presumably between Lepcis and Homs.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
5: The underlined letters, on a part of the block now lost, were read by Clermont-Ganneau.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Calpurnia Bargydden and Calpurnius Cerealis and Calpurnius Candidus; Calpurnia Licinia Sadith had (scil. this) made for her parents and brother, from dutiful respect.
Commentary
Line 2. Calpurnius Cerialis. See also 678.
Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903 340, with drawing, whence AE 1904.15, CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22678; IRT, 1952, 676, whence IRT, 2009, 676, whence EDH 033024; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.23)
Fig. 2. Drawing, Clermont-Ganneau (1895)