WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0852. Funerary inscription

Description: Base (w: 0.56 x h: 1.59) of hard limestone: on the back a crown and fillet in relief, on the right side a jug, on the left a patera.
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Not recorded.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Coastal Belt: from a tomb at Zdu near Zliten; found re-used as an impost block in the mosque of Sidi ben Gammu. 1221 was inscribed on the wall of the tomb
Original location: Apparently from a tomb at Zdu
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Dis
manibus
sacrum
Q(uinti) Licini
5[Pi]sonis
Q(uintus) Licinius
Ṛụf̣ụṣ fil(ius)
patri carissi[mo]
ex uoto
10 d(e) s(uo) f(ecit)

Diplomatic

DIS
MANIBUS
SACRUM
QLICINI
5[..]SONIS
QLICINIUS
.....FIL
PATRICARISSI[..]
EXUOTO
10DSF

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the gods below of Qinitus Licinius Piso; Quintus Licinius Rufus had this made, in accordance with a vow, for his very dear father, at his own expense.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1927, 232-3 ff. ; IRT, 1952, 852, whence IRT, 2009, 852, whence EDH 059703

Images

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