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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0689. Funerary inscription for M. Clutorius Baliahon

Description: Upper part of a moulded base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.70 x d: 0.50) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded paneI (die, w: 0.26 x h: 0.29; height incomplete).
Letters: Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.04-0.045.

Date: Second to third centuries A.D (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah, 100 yards East of the surviving mausoleum, and South of Fort Victor Emmanuel
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
M(arcus) Cluto-
rius Bali-
ahon OḶI
5 ------

Diplomatic

DMS
MCLUTO
RIUSBALI
AHONO.I
5------

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the gods below. Marcus Clutorius Baliahon [---]

Commentary

Line 2-4. M. Clutorius Baliahon. See also CIL VIII, 15275, 18677.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 689, whence IRT, 2009, 689, whence EDH 059540; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.14)