WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0867. Funerary inscription for Issicuar

Description: block (w: 0.70 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.19) of brown limestone
Text: Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.30 a) In the panel. b) In the right ansa. Left ansa obliterated. There are formal sprays in the angles.
Letters: Late capitals: 0.05-0.07.

Date: Unknown.

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: From the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

a
Bibe Issicua-
r quia mer-
eris cum fi-
li tui Semp
5et Eisrelia
b
A I

Diplomatic

a
BIBEISSICUA
RQUIAMER
ERISCUMFI
LITUISEMP
5ETEISRELIA
b
AI

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. Live Issicuar because you deserve it, together with your children Semp (?) and Eisrelia.

b. (Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

Line 1-2. Issicuar. For this name, see also 886 (h) and (k), 902.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1919, 39-42, no. 8, whence AE, 1921.88; IRT, 1952, 867, whence IRT, 2009, 867, whence EDH 059716; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 684 Leica)