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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0655. Funerary? inscription of Byrycth

Description: Block of limestone
Text: One line of Neo-Punic (Neo-Punic 4) follows the Latin and Greek texts. The Neo-Punic text is a translation of the Latin and Greek.
Letters: No description

Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: "east part of the ruins", found in 1846 together with 654 and uniform with it.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1846)

Interpretive

a
Byrycth Balsilechis f(ilia) mater Clodi medici
b
Βύρυχθ Βαλσιάληχ θυγάτηρ μήτηρ Κλωδίου ἰατροῦ
c
brkt bt bᶜlšlk ᵓm qlᶜᵓᶜy hrbᵓ

Diplomatic

a
BYRYCTHBALSILECHISFMATERCLODIMEDICI
b
ΒΥΡΥΧΘΒΑΛΣΙΑΛΗΧΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΜΗΤΗΡΚΛΩΔΙΟΥΙΑΤΡΟΥ
c
BRKTBTBᶜLŠLKᵓMQLᶜᵓᶜYHRBᵓ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. Byrycth, daughter of Balsilech, mother of Clodius the doctor (in Latin)

b. Byrycth, daughter of Balsilech, mother of Clodius the doctor (in Greek)

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

c. Birichth, daughter of Balsillech, mother of Clodius, the doctor

Commentary

Clodius medicus: Also in 654, line 1-2.

Discussion of Neo-Punic text: Jongeling, K. 1983, ‘Neo-punische-latijnse inscripties uit Lepcis Magna (Libye)’ in 13, 414; Adams (2003), 216-217; Garbini, G. 2006. Introduzione all'epigrafia semitica. Brescia. 193; Jongeling (2008), Labdah N4. Wilson (2012), 302-303.

Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 16 and p. 2289 , whence IGRR, I:938; IRT, 1952, 655, whence IRT, 2009, 655; with the Neo-Punic text Levi Della Vida, 1987 12, whence PHI 189516 and Jongeling-Kerr, 2005 17-18 and Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N4;

Images

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