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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0754. Funerary inscription

    Description: Small coffin-shaped cinerary urn of grey limestone.
    Text: Inscribed in rough capitals on the body.
    Letters: Line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.045.

    Date: First-third centuries CE

    Findspot: Lepcis Magna: found in the Forum Vetus behind the Church;
    Original location: Unknown
    Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

    Interpretive

    Aquili
    Aquiliani
    Tyra

    Diplomatic

    AQUILI
    AQUILIANI
    TYRA

    1: There was possibly another letter at the beginning of line 1

    English translation

    Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

    Of Aquilius Aquilianus ? from Tyre (or) Tyra set this up

    Commentary

    Lines 1-2: See also 666

    Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 25.11.34 ; IRT, 1952, 754.5, whence IRT, 2009, 754, whence EDH 067704

    Images

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