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Lambaesis

In a funerary insciption from Lambaesis (Tazoult, Algeria) we encounter a deceased woman from Ostia, apparently the wife of a soldier:

[---]SIMAE DOMO OSTIS
[--- ann]ORVM LX
[---]IVS HORATIANVS [---]
[---] LEG(ionis) III [---]
CIL VIII.1, 3283.



A mosaic from Lambaesis, now in the museum of Timgad. Photo: Wikimedia, Reda Kerbouche.