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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0677. Funerary inscription by C. Calpurnius Trachalus Dosides

Description: block (w: 0.76 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.21) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.30 x h: 0.34), set between plain pilasters.
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.035.

Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; Probably found on the West bank (Aurigemma MS notes). Formerly in Homs Museum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Diis manibus
C(aius) Calpurnius Tracha-
lus Dosides Calpurni-
is fratribus carissim(is)
5Zenae et Aristoni et U-
ịbi monumentum et
sepulchrum fecit

Diplomatic

DIISMANIBUS
CCALPURNIUSTRACHA
LUSDOSIDESCALPURNI
ISFRATRIBUSCARISSIM
5ZENAEETARISTONIETU
.BIMONUMENTUMET
SEPULCHRUMFECIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. Caius Calpurnius Trachalus Dosides had the monument and tomb made for his beloved brothers the Calpurnii Zenas and Aristo and Vibis.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 677, whence IRT, 2009, 677, whence EDH 059528; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.13)