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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0741. Funerary inscription for Septimia Cariota

Description: Round-topped stele, rising in one block from a rough base (w: 0.28 x h: 0.70 x d: 0.11) of fine grey-brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rough capitals, probably third century: av. 0.035.

Date: Probably third century (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis; found with 711 beside a marabout, near the West walls (Bartoccini MS notes)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
Septimia
Cariota
h(ic) s(ita) e(st)

Diplomatic

DMS
SEPTIMIA
CARIOTA
HSE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the gods below. Septimia Cariota is buried here.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 741, whence IRT, 2009, 741, whence EDH 059588; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.17)