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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0860. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Rough block (w: 0.55 x h: 0.85 x d: 0.23) of yellow limestone
Text: Inscribed on one face. Two lines in another script, possibly debased Neo-Punic, follow the Latin text. A second inscription is illegible from erosion.
Letters: Rough capitals, not earlier than third century CE: 0.04-0.05.

Date: Not earlier than third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Western Jabal: at Saniet el-Crema (map ref. Q 128760) on a small hillock about 200 m. East of the weline The site of a semi-Romanized Libyan cemetery. Seen and photographed by Goodchild in 1947.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Flabi[---]
Mysu[---]-
-n uixit
5a(nnos) XL

Diplomatic

DM
FLABI[---]
MYSU[---]
NUIXIT
5AXL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. [---] Flabi[---] Mysu[---] he/she lived for forty years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 860, whence IRT, 2009, 860, whence EDH 059710; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 382)