Marble Latin funerary inscription for a woman from Caesarea Maritima

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Title

Marble Latin funerary inscription for a woman from Caesarea Maritima

Description

A fragment of a white marble Latin funerary inscription for a woman from Caesarea Maritima which where the text was later erased.

Publisher

CIIP2: 1440

Format

Marble

Language

Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata

Dimensions

H 11cm
W 13cm
D 2cm

Decoration

two lines of latin inscription which have been scratched off

Language

Diplomatic

[[--]]
[[QVAE V--]]
[[XXX・DI]]

Edition

[[[--] | quae v[ixit annos] XXX di[es--]]]

Translation

(Name of a woman), who lived thirty years, ... days ...

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP2

Edition Constituted From

CIIP2

Translation Constituted From

CIIP2

Description

A fragment of a white marble Latin funerary inscription for a woman from Caesarea Maritima which where the text was later erased.

Findspot

Caesarea

Current Location (if known)

IAA. Autopsy: 7 January 1999

Selected Bibliography

CIIP2=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume II: Caesarea and the Middle Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. no.1440.

Citation

“Marble Latin funerary inscription for a woman from Caesarea Maritima,” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed March 28, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/735.

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