Description: Round-topped stele (w:
0.38 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.05, height incomplete) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters: Second to third century CE capitals: line 1, 0.055; line 2-6, 0.045-0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Jabal Nafusah:
Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Sacred to the gods below. Julia Faustina lived dutifully for twenty-eight years, eleven months and twenty-five days; Julius Honoratus, her freedman, undertook the charge( i.e. of tomb construction).
Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 5 with 10486, with CIL VIII suppl.1, 1891. 10993; Romanelli, 1922, 111; IRT, 1952, 856, whence IRT, 2009, 856, whence EDH 059706; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 250)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 694 Leica)