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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0711. Funerary inscription for Imaia Iunia Victoria

Description: Round-topped stele (w: 0.27 x h: 0.84 x d: 0.15) of fine grey-brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.22 x h: 0.27), cut as a rudimentary tabella ansata; above the recess, a crescent in relief.
Letters: Rough capitals, probably third century: 0.02-0.025.

Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis; found with 741 beside a marabout, near the West walls (Bartoccini MS notes)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Dis mani-
bus sacr(um) Im-
aia Iunia Ui-
ctoria uix-
5it annos
XIV

Diplomatic

DISMANI
BUSSACRIM
AIAIUNIAUI
CTORIAUIX
5ITANNOS
XIV

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the gods below. Imaia Junia Victoria lived for fourteen years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 711, whence IRT, 2009, 711, whence EDH 059560; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XI.6)