WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0714. Funerary inscription for Iulia Clymenis

Description: Base (w: 0.53 x h: 1.00 x d: 0.44) of grey limestone, with sockets above; inscribed on one face within a panel (die, w: 3.38 x h: 0.80).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a panel.
Letters: Good capitals: line 1, 0.08, remainder, 0.045.

Date: First to third centuries CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah, Hill on the right bank, occupied as a temporary defence post in 1912. Seen and recorded by Aurigemma in 1912.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1912)

Interpretive

Dis manibus
Iuliae Clyme-
nis uxori (sic)
M(arcus) Aemilius
5Athictus
consacrauit

Diplomatic

DISMANIBUS
IULIAECLYME
NISUXORI(sic)
MAEMILIUS
5ATHICTUS
CONSACRAUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Julia Clymenis (?). For (scil. his) wife, Marcus Aemilius Athictus consecrated this.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1930, 90; IRT, 1952, 714, whence IRT, 2009, 714, whence EDH 059563

Images

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