WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0862. Funerary inscription

Description: Lower part of a rectangular base (w: 0.33 x h: 0.73 x d: 0.15, height incomplete) of grey limestone,
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.12 x h: 0.45), the centre of which, containing the last three lines, is further recessed.
Letters: Second to third century capitals: 0.04-0.05.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Western Jabal: From an uncertain site in the Asabaa plain area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tigrinna, near Garian, map ref. Q 283863 in 1952.

Interpretive

[D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)]
Q(uinti) Egn-
ati Po-
lionis
5 u(ixit) an(nos) L

Diplomatic

[...]
QEGN
ATIPO
LIONIS
5UANL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Sacred to the gods below] of Quintus Egnatius Pollio; he lived fifty years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 862, whence IRT, 2009, 862, whence EDH 059712; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR