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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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“untitled” 1999

@MirandaHalsey_

If this is the inscription that I think it is, I believe this is the translation (done by my professor, I believe, but I could be wrong)

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That is marvellous!! What is the inscription ref?

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“untitled” 1999

@MirandaHalsey_

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.

6:19 PM · Mar 6, 2020

That is very kind - thank you!!

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