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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0705. Funerary inscription for Fulvia Crescentilla

Description: Fragments of a marble column (diam. 0.62: height together of the two inscribed fragments 1.49, and of one uninscribed fragment 1.38).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: line 2, 0.190; line 3, 0.150; line 4, 0.095; line 5, 0.175; line 6. 0.105; line 7, 0.070.

Date: First to fouth centuries CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: 2 km East of Ras el-Mergheb. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, beside the ruins of an ancient building on a small hill and a little south-east of the mausoleum of Gasr Bu-Maser, near a house called Casa Iorio. Since lost.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1912)

Interpretive

Ḍ(is) ṃ(anibus)
Fuluiae
[C]ṛẹṣc̣ẹṇṭịḷḷạẹ
uxoris sanctissimae
5 Q(uintus) Marcius
Candidus Rusonianus
maritus fecit

Diplomatic

..
FULUIAE
[.]............
UXORISSANCTISSIMAE
5QMARCIUS
CANDIDUSRUSONIANUS
MARITUSFECIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Fulvia Crescentilla, his most chaste wife; Quintus Marcus Candidus Rusonianus, her husband, had (scil. this) made.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, Aurigemma, 1930, 86, fig. 5; IRT, 1952, 705, whence IRT, 2009, 705, whence EDH 059554

Images

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