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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886c. Funerary text

Description: Damaged stele of brown limestone, broken away below: w: 0.33 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.33.
Text: Inscribed on the face, between guidelines
Letters: 0.02-0.05.

Date: Fourth-early fifth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Wādī Sawfajjīn: Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Bir ed-Dreder: Surveyed in situ, in the Libyan cemetery, by Goodchild in 1949.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle

Interpretive

[Fla]bius Mac[a]rcu-
[m .. σ]obm[o]n [.] trib-
[unus b]yn [.]R[.]NIA
[...]IN[...]DY
5[...]N[...]
AHMA[...]N
[...]LLPHR[...]BS
Macarcum tribu-
nus [σ]ob[mon] HYS
10BIU[.]NIC[.]BIUIM[.]
[...]IHRY

Diplomatic

[...]BIUSMAC[.]RCU
[.··.]OBM[.]N[·]TRIB
[.....]YN[·]R[·]NIA
[···]IN[···]DY
5[···]N[···]
AHMA[···]N
[···]LLPHR[···]BS
MACARCUMTRIBU
NUS[.]OB[...]HYS
10BIU[·]NIC[·]BIUIM[·]
[···]IHRY

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Flavius Macarcum. Macarcum, tribune.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Flavius Macarcum . . . trib- . . Su rnia . . . Macarum tribune . . . for his br]other he raised the tomb.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

[Fla]bius Macarcu[m . . the Z]obm[o]n, the Trib[une s]on of [ . . . ] Macarcum, the tribune, the [Z]ob[mon . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.c, whence IRT, 2009, 886c; Goodchild, 1954 3, whence Elmayer, 1997, 34; this edition Kerr, 2010, 173 (where see bibliography)

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