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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0682. Funerary inscription

Description: block of limestone, with mouldings.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: No description

Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Shore Seen in 1895 lying isolated on the shore < peu avant d'arriver aux ruines>, presumably to the West of the city.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1895)

Interpretive

Dis manusibus (sic)
Claud(i)aẹ [S]ab<i>naẹ
Soteric̣[---]

Diplomatic

DISMANUSIBUS(sic)
CLAUDA.[.]ABNA.
SOTERI.[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Claudia Sabina ?Soterica [---]

Commentary

The last surviving word might be a name in the nominative of a person who set up the monument.

Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903 341 (with sketch), whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22680; IRT, 1952, 682, whence IRT, 2009, 682, whence EDH 059533

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing, Clermont-Ganneau (1895)