Description: Square marble
slab (w:
0.90 x h:
0.98), re-used.
Text: Inscribed when the slab was already cracked. The text concludes with a spray ending in a cross.
Letters: 0.045-0.065; capitals, with uncial D in the last line.
Date: Fifth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Monogram cross) Here lies the son of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, an innocent named Longinus. He lived for seven days in the month of September in the eleventh indiction.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 46, no.5 , fig 11; IRT, 1952, 840, whence IRT, 2009, 840, whence EDH 059691; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XXI.12)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)
Fig. 3. Tantillo (2004)