Description: Two slabs, one of cream marble and one of grey marble (together, w:
0.06 x h:
0.80).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: av. 0.07; uncial U and D, once each.
Date: Fifth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in situ, but considerably damaged, within Church II.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
2: VIIII.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Cross) To (scil. her) good memory. Anna, innocent daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place. She lived in peace for one year, nine months and nine days, and died on the 5th day of the month of June, in the twelfth indiction. (Cross.)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 42 ff., no.1, fig.9; IRT, 1952, 834, whence IRT, 2009, 834, whence EDH 059685; Laronde, 2005 84-85, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.9)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2004)