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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0733. Funerary inscripion for Nyftha

Description: Hexagonal panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.025) of yellow marble.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Irregular capitals (not earlier than third century): 0.03.

Date: Not earlier than the third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: : West Necropolis, Wadi Rsaf; from the old cemetery on the West side between Lepcis and Homs
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Nyfthae

Diplomatic

DM
NYFTHAE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below of Nyftha.

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 29.10.27; IRT, 1952, 733, whence IRT, 2009, 733, whence EDH 059580; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 810, 505, 733; below 822: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.11)