Roman inscriptions at Tunis
Date
1730
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p57v
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 214mm
width (paper): 161mm
width (paper): 161mm
Subject
Content object
Description
There is something puzzling about the date of this inscription, claimed to have been communicated to Locke in 1730, though the philosopher died in 1704. It was published in 1763, with other inscriptions from various monuments, in ‘Roman inscriptions at Tunis in Africa, copied about the year 1730 by Dr. Carilos, a native of Madrid, then physician to the Bay of Tunis, communicated by John Locke, Esq., F.R.S.’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 53 (1763), pp. 211-28, tab. 16.
Transcription
Inscription in ink begins: In duabus epistyliis Domus Dei quae porticibus substant, haec sepulchralia epitaphia leguntur.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
‘Roman inscriptions at Tunis in Africa, copied about the year 1730 by Dr. Carilos, a native of Madrid, then physician to the Bay of Tunis, communicated by John Locke, Esq., F.R.S.’, Phil. Trans., 53 (1763), pp. 211-28, tab. 16.
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