Description: Chest-shaped Tomb, consisting of two sandstone blocks (together, w:
0.50 x h:
1.75 x d:
0.40) stuccoed and projecting one third above ground.
Text: Inscribed in red paint, now very faded.
Letters: av. 0.14
Date: Fifth century - seventh century CE (style)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, loose near Church II.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the good memory of Paupera. She lived [approximately] twenty (possibly more) years [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 841, whence IRT, 2009, 841, whence EDH 059692; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXI.36)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.20)