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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0859. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Left-hand side of a broken block (dimensions not recorded).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, flanked by a palm-branch in relief between volutes in place of the customary ansa of a tabella ansata.
Letters: Irregular capitals: size not recorded.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Western Jabal: at El-Ghelaa, 4 km. East of Jefren (map ref. U 865790).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Seen and photographed in the early days of the Italian occupation. Later transferred to Jefren, where it was again photographed, already much damaged (Sopr. A 862) and subsequently lost.

Interpretive

M(arcus) Ulpius[---]
Chinitiu[---? sibi et]
suis feci[t ---]
Septim[---]

Diplomatic

MULPIUS[---]
CHINITIU[---?......]
SUISFECI[.---]
SEPTIM[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Marcus Ulpius [---] of the tribe of the Chinitii, had this made [for himself and] his family [---] Septim[i---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 859, whence IRT, 2009, 859, whence EDH 059709

Images

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