Description: Clay
amphora, originally used for wine, and then for garum; it was reused in the funerary ceremony, and still contained fragments
from the funerary pyre
Text: Painted on the neck: i was added above ii.
Letters: 0.018
Date: Mid second century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis,
a mausoleum in Wadi Rsaf.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): Castus, (i.e. slave/freedman?) of Marcus Vibius Crescens. (ii): Garum.
Commentary
M. Bibius Crescens: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/14960
Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 2008a, 151-152, whence AE 2008.1621, EDCS 51500075
Images
None available (2021).