Description: Engaged half-column (w:
0.51 x h:
0.47 x d:
1.05) of soft grey-brown limestone, re-used horizontally as part of a tomb.
Text: Inscribed on one end within a moulded border (die, w:
0.42 x h:
0.31).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.035-0.045 (uncial Q).
Date: First to fifth centuries CE (formulae)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Decumanus maximus, Regio I, immediately West of the Arch of Severus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Sacred to the gods below. Elia Victoria Masquiitana. she lived (at least) twenty-one years. Elius Datus had (scil. this) made.
Commentary
Line 3. Bartoccini reads Masqulitana and derives from Mascula, see CIL VIII, p. 248.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931a, 40; IRT, 1952, 695, whence IRT, 2009, 695, whence EDH 059545; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 761)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.27)