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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0743. Funerary inscription for Faustinus Cunnus

Description: Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.21 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.11) of coarse grey limestone, a rosette within the triangle.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.13 x h: 0.13).
Letters: 0.02-0.025.

Date: First to fourth century CE (terminology)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
SIZ Aụr(elius)
Faustini
Cunni

Diplomatic

DMS
SIZA.R
FAUSTINI
CUNNI

2: AYR

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the gods below, of [---] Aurelius Faustinus Cunnus.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 743, whence IRT, 2009, 743, whence EDH 059590; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIV.16)