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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1036. Funerary inscription

Description: Block of limestone w: 0.645 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.15
Text: Inscribed on the face, a tabula ansata.
Letters: Lines 1-4, 0.06; line 6, 0.035

Date: First-third centuries CE

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis, reused in a building at Ez-Zeita.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

Diis Manibus
( vac. ) fecit ( vac. )
Ma(rcus?) Epii sib<i> et
suis et patrona
5( vac. ) sua ( vac. )

Diplomatic

DIISMANIBUS
      FECIT      
MAEPIISIBET
SUISETPATRONA
5      SUA      

English translation

Translation source: El-Nemsi, 1997

(Tomb dedicated) to the spirits of the dead, made by Marcius Eppius for himself and for his family and his patroness

Bibliography: El-Nemsi, 1997 no. 1, 210-211, whence AE 1997.1585, EDH 049861

Images

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