Description: Wedge-shaped slab of marble (w:
0.17 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.44, broken at the top).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.025-0.03.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
Sid(d)en made this stele for her brother Ocles, she made it (jointly with) her brother Oces (aged) XX (years)
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
Stiden made for her brother Ocles, she made (scil. for) her brother Oces, twenty, 20
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 21.1.28; IRT, 1952, 826, without transcription, whence Elmayer, 1997, 3, IRT, 2009, 826, whence EDH 059677; this edition Kerr, 2010, 204 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.11)
Fig. 2. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 194)