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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0688. Funerary inscription for C. Cosconius Marsus

Description: Marble panel: w: 0.45 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.13
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata.
Letters: No description

Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice (Inv. no. 412)

Interpretive

Dis manib-
us C(aii) Cosco-
ni Marsi

Diplomatic

DISMANIB
USCCOSCO
NIMARSI

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Caius Cosconius Marsus.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 65; Aurigemma, 1930, 92, fig. 9; IRT, 1952, 688, whence IRT, 2009, 688, whence EDH 059539. Image at Ubi Erat Lupa, 19626; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Museo Archeologico, Venezia. 412-M.A.V.)