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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0755. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Block of marble, resembling a base (height recorded as 0.30, an obvious error). Seen with 662 in 1895, lying half-buried (see 729).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel, (length of line of text 0.34), damaged at the upper left-hand corner; line 1 is cut above the die, line 12-13 below it.
Letters: No description.

Date: First to fifth century CE (terminology)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis, Gasr ed-Doueirat. Seen in 1895 beside the mausoleum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1895)

Interpretive

[---] NUM DE [.]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---] NB [..]
5 [---] MORI
[---] ẠOGE
[---]ntiano
[---]nis annui
[l]onga gaeneros(i)
10tate ornati qui uix(it)
ann(os) XXII m(enses) III et
[---] BEḶḶḶ [c. 3] SSU [..]
-ium ciuium suo[rum]

Diplomatic

[---]NUMDE[·]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]NB[··]
5[---]MORI
[---].OGE
[---]NTIANO
[---]NISANNUI
[.]ONGAGAENEROS
10TATEORNATIQUIUIX
ANNXXIIMIIIET
[---]BE...[···]SSU[··]
IUMCIUIUMSUO[...]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line7) (to, from or by)[---]ntianus [---] of annual [---] adorned with long-standing generosity, who lived twenty-two years, three months and [? days---] of his fellow-citizens.

Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903, 342 (with sketch) , whence AE 1904.16 CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22675; IRT, 1952, 755, whence IRT, 2009, 755, whence EDH 059602

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing, Clermont-Ganneau (1895)