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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0243. Funerary inscription

Description: A rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: No description

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: A rock-cut tomb near Tripoli City; described in 1670.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1670)

Interpretive

Dis manib(us)
M(arcus) Aurelius Diodorus
Aureliae Flaccillae
filiae [uixit] ann(os) XVII
5 [menses?] dies XVII

Diplomatic

DISMANIB
MAURELIUSDIODORUS
AURELIAEFLACCILLAE
FILIAE[.....]ANNXVII
5[......]DIESXVII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. Marcus Aurelius Diodorus for Aurelia Flaccilla his daughter; [she lived---] years, 17 [months], 17 days.

Bibliography: Girard, 1685 f.38v-39r, whence Cumont, 1925, 155, 164; IRT, 1952, 243, whence IRT, 2009, 243, whence EDH 059213

Images

   Fig. 1. Girard, Histoire, f. 39-40 (Source gallica.bnf.fr)