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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0873. Funerary text

Description: Large, triangular-headed stele (w: 0.34 x h: 2.05, height above ground )
Text: Inscribed within a rudimentary, recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.23).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.03.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Medina Doga: In the Concessione S.A.F.I.L., 200 m. south of the large mausoleum at Gasr Doga (map ref. L 957220), on approximately the same site as 872.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle (2003).

Interpretive

mynꞩyf̣th
ymu fel Bibi
Mythunilim
uinꞩeḅ libinim
5Mythunilim

Diplomatic

MYNꞨY.TH
YMUFELBIBI
MYTHUNILIM
UINꞨE.LIBINIM
5MYTHUNILIM

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translatable)

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Stele which Vibius Mythunilim Vinser has made to his son Mythunilim.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Memorial which made Bibi Mythunilim and erected for his son Mythunilim

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 873, whence Elmayer, 1997, 23, IRT, 2009, 873, without transcription, whence EDH 059718; described Goodchild, 1951 b.6, whence mentioned AE 1954.181; this edition Kerr, 2010, 196 (where see bibliography).; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 5. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 6. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 212)