Description: A limestone sarcophagus, decorated
with a relief of a casket supported by putti: broken away above.
Text: Inscribed within the face of the casket, which is moulded below.
Letters: Clear and elegant: no measurements.
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis,
a mausoleum in Wadi Rsaf. Seen by Delaporte in 1806, and foud again in 1996.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1996)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] for me to die as a child, since the thread of the Fates spun that I should be buried as a child and come to the darkness without light.
Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 32, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5363 a) Reported at CIL VIII, 1881, 7, more fully CIL VIII suppl.1, 1891. 10997, from Delaporte's transcription; IRT, 1952, 764, whence PHI 189528, IRT, 2009, 764, whence EDH 059611; Found and photographed Musso et al., 1997 266 and plate CXLI
Images
None available (2021).