WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0858. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Round-headed stele
Text: Inscribed within a border, much battered.
Letters: Irregular capitals: size not recorded.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Jabal Nafusah: Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720). Seen and photographed by Beguinot in 1923
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1923)

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus) [s(acrum)?]
Anti[---]
Ualeṛ[i]- [--- uixit annos]
XXV m[enses]
5 VIIII di[es ---]
Iulius [---]-
-nus T[---]

Diplomatic

DM[.]
ANTI[---]
UALE.[.---..........]
XXVM[.....]
5VIIIIDI[..---]
IULIUS[---]
NUST[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Sacred?] to the gods below of Anti[---] Valerius [--- ; he lived for] twenty-five [years], nine months ands [---] days [---] Julius [---]nus T[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 858, whence IRT, 2009, 858, whence EDH 059708; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 563)