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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0680. Funerary inscription for L. Cl. Perpetuus Probatus

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.55 x h: 0.92 x d: 0.60) of coarse grey limestone, with moulded panels on 3 sides.
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.30 x h: 0.69).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.065.

Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: East Necropolis, Mausolea east of the city (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
L(uci) Cl(audii)
Perpe-
tui Pro-
5bati
uix(it) ann(os)
XX

Diplomatic

DM
LCL
PERPE
TUIPRO
5BATI
UIXANN
XX

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Lucius Claudius Perpetuus Probatus. He lived for twenty years.

Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 17, whence CIL VIII, 1881, 18, and p. 2289; Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1906 79; IRT, 1952, 680, whence IRT, 2009, 680, whence EDH 059531; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.17)