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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1031. Funerary inscription

Description: Coffin-shaped funerary urn of grey limestone w: 0.28 x h: 0.475 x d: 0.245
Text: Inscribed along the long side
Letters: 0.045-0.055; traces of red paint in the letters.

Date: Second century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: in a hypogaeum in the West Necropolis.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

M(arci) Laurenti
Silani p(atris)

Diplomatic

MLAURENTI
SILANIP

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Of Marcus Laurentius, father of Silanus.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1997, 1, 121-2, whence AE 1997.1580, EDH 049856

Images

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