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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0719. Funerary inscription for Loukios

Description: Marble stele (w: 0.38 x h: 0.64 x d: 0.09) in the form of a shrine with columns, pediment and acroteria, forming a border to the inscribed die (w: 0.27 x h: 0.42). A tongue projects downwards from the base.
Text: Inscribed on the die.
Letters: 0.025-0.013.

Date: First to fourth centuries CE (terminology)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Found re-used in late antiquity, in the so-called Villa del Nilo, beside the sea between the Port and the Amphitheatre
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

τὸν σεμνῶς ζήσαν-
τα καὶ ἤθεσι δοξασ(θέν)-
τα τειμαῖς τειμηθέν-
τα τέχνῃ δέ τοὶ μοῦ-
5νον ἐόντα πάνσοφον
ἐν πολλοῖς ἔργεσιν
Λούκιον ἔνθα μέλαινα
Λιβύης κατὰ γαῖα κα-
λύπτ(ε)ι Σώστρατος
10Λουκίῳ τῷ ἰδίῳ θρε-
πτῷ ζήσαντι ἔτη
κα´ μνήμης
χ̣άριν
[χ]αίρετε παροδεῖ-
15ται

Diplomatic

ΤΟΝΣΕΜΝΩΣΖΗΣΑΝ
ΤΑΚΑΙΗΘΕΣΙΔΟΞΑΣ
ΤΑΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΗΘΕΝ
ΤΑΤΕΧΝΗΔΕΤΟΙΜΟΥ
5ΝΟΝΕΟΝΤΑΠΑΝΣΟΦΟΝ
ΕΝΠΟΛΛΟΙΣΕΡΓΕΣΙΝ
ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝΕΝΘΑΜΕΛΑΙΝΑ
ΛΙΒΥΗΣΚΑΤΑΓΑΙΑΚΑ
ΛΥΠΤΙΣΩΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ
10ΛΟΥΚΙΩΤΩΙΔΙΩΘΡΕ
ΠΤΩΖΗΣΑΝΤΙΕΤΗ
ΚΑΜΝΗΜΗΣ
.ΑΡΙΝ
[.]ΑΙΡΕΤΕΠΑΡΟΔΕΙ
15ΤΑΙ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

One who lived honourably and respected for his way of life, honoured ?with official honours, being of singulars skill and wholly informed in many tasks, Lucius, here the black earth of Libya conceals you. Sostratos (scil. set this up) for Lucius, his own nursling , who lived for twenty-one years; in memory.

Hail, passers-by!

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, fig. 77; Aurigemma, 1928, 259ff., fig. 9; SEG 9.805; IRT, 1952, 719, whence IRT, 2009, 719, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, 201, PHI 189523 EDH 059568; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXV.10)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 3. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR