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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0747. Dedication by Tetia Prima for her family.

Description: colonnette (diam. 0.28 height 1.78) of grey limestone, capped by a finial.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.18).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.025-0.03.

Date: First to fourth century CE (terminology)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; Found on the right bank, north of the present coast road.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Tetia L(uci) l(iberta) Prima
sibi et L(ucio) Tetio L(uci) l(iberto)
Meiantho uiro
suo et suis

Diplomatic

TETIALLPRIMA
SIBIETLTETIOLL
MEIANTHOUIRO
SUOETSUIS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Tetia Prima, freedwoman of Lucius, (scil. had this made) for herself and for Lucius Tetius Meianthus, freedman of Lucius, her husband, and their family.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 158; IRT, 1952, 747, whence IRT, 2009, 747, whence EDH 059594; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 448)