a
ΖΗ
bτύμβος ἐμοὶ κ[---]
Description: Fragment from the upper left-hand corner of a marble
block
(surviving, w:
0.255 x h:
0.155 x d:
0.075)
with schematic pediment and acroteria above.
Text: Inscribed within the pediment and below.
a) Within the pediment.
b) Below the pediment.
Letters: a) 0.026 b) 0.016
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Decumanus maximus,
Severan arch; found in 1937.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
a
ΖΗ
bΤΥΜΒΟΣΕΜΟΙΚ[---]
Presumably κεῖται, but there is a space on the stone after the κ.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) He/she lives. (b) The tomb [was made] for me [---]
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 12.6.37; IRT, 1952, 763, whence PHI 189527; IRT, 2009, 763, whence EDH 059610; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2013 Leica)