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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886d. Funerary inscription

Description: Block of brown limestone (w: 0.46 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.21)
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata, w: 0.33 x h: 0.16
Letters: 0.04-0.045

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

Maσicama
byn Isachu
tribunus STR

Diplomatic

MAΣICAMA
BYNISACHU
TRIBUNUSSTR

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Masigama [---], tribune.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Mascicama son of Isachu tribunus, prince.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Mazicama son of Isachu[ar?] (the) tribune . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.d, whence IRT, 2009, 886d; Goodchild, 1954 4, whence Elmayer, 1997, 35; this edition Kerr, 2010, 174 (where see bibliography).

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