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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0699. Funerary inscription for Flaminia Agaue

Description: Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.33 x h: 1.01 x d: 0.20) of fine grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within an incised border (die, w: 0.26).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Flaminia
Agau(e) uixit
annis n(umero) LXVI
5 m(ensibus) VIIII

Diplomatic

DM
FLAMINIA
AGAUUIXIT
ANNISNLXVI
5MVIIII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. Flaminia Agave; she lived sixty-six years and nine months.

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo, April 1933; IRT, 1952, 699, whence IRT, 2009, 699, whence EDH 059548; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.38)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 841)