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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0712. Funerary inscription for Iovinas

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.

Interpretive

Iouinas

Diplomatic

IOUINAS

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)