Description: Triangular-headed stele
(w:
0.33 x h:
1.04 x d:
0.19) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.24 x h:
0.16)..
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.03; line 2-4, 0.02.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Wadi Lebdah; On the left bank, about 50 m. North of the Main Road.
Found in situ on a tomb
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Sacred to the gods below; Marcia Eutychia lived for forty-seven years. Cornelius Marsus had (scil. this) made for his wife.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 727, whence IRT, 2009, 727, whence EDH 059576; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.33)