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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0244. Funerary inscription

Description: Known only from a contemporary letter in the archives of the British Consulate.
Text: No description.
Letters: No description.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: Oea: found in 1831 in a vaulted tomb, in Sciara el-Quasc near the arch of Marcus Aurelius. The associated finds included a coin of Faustina the elder.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Garden of the former British Consulate in Tripoli, since lost;

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Caeciliaẹ Namgyd-
dụịị Rogati fil(iae)
Saturninus Abas-
5canṭi filius
uxori piissimae
uixit ann(os) XVIIII
D M XIII

Diplomatic

DM
CAECILIA.NAMGYD
D...ROGATIFIL
SATURNINUSABAS
5CAN.IFILIUS
UXORIPIISSIMAE
UIXITANNXVIIII
D MXIII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Caecilia Namgyddus, daughter of Rogatus. Saturninus son of Abascantus for a most dutiful wife; she lived 19 years, 18 months, no days.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 244, whence IRT, 2009, 244, whence EDH 059214

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