Description: Bulbous cinerary urn
(depth 0.33,
height 0.21) of white marble, fluted up to the shoulder,
with a kymation between the shoulder and the lip and two flattened lion-head projections at the shoulder.
Text: Inscribed on the kymation, on one side.
Letters: 0.02.
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Iovinas (Feminine, genitive case ?)
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 3.2.35; IRT, 1952, 712, whence IRT, 2009, 712, whence EDH 059561; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.IV.38)