Description: Two slabs of grey limestone (w:
0.98 x h:
0.54, and w:
0.98 x h:
0.54)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.035-0.05; uncial Q.
Date: Fifth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835 and 840.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Here lies Alexander son of Bagaus, who lived for eighty-six years; he was buried in the third indiction, in the month of September. This is a man who was knowledgeable and expert in his family affairs.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 47 ff., no.6, fig. 12; IRT, 1952, 833, whence IRT, 2009, 833, whence EDH 059684; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.29)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XXI.12)
Fig. 3. Tantillo (2004)