This Latin inscription in the Louvre immediately caught my eye as I realized that I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen a cursive inscription before! It‘s an epitaph in verse from Africa Proconsularis in the form of a biography about a harvester’s rise to a magistracy, 260-270 CE.
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I'd like to know more. What was his name? Or some way to find the inscription?
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After some digging, a full reference: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 8.11824 = Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 7457 (Mactar, Tunisia, 3rd century A.D.), tr. Tim G. Parkin and Arthur J. Pomeroy, Roman Social History: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 39-40.
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I actually spent quite some time discussing it in a class on Roman Society! We especially touched on how the translator chose to use the word "sin." However, my emphasis is in Greek, so Latin inscriptions are a bit over my head... But interesting, indeed!
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