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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886g. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary stele of brown limestone (w: 0.25 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.20)
Text: Inscribed on the face between horizontal guidelines
Letters: 0.02-0.04.

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

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[...A]inmus
Nimira
byn [---]

Diplomatic

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[···.]INMUS
NIMIRA
BYN[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

. . . ]imnus Nimira.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

. . . Nimira son

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

. . . ] Nimira son of [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.g, whence IRT, 2009, 886g; Goodchild, 1954 7, whence Elmayer, 1997, 38; this edition Kerr, 2010, 178 (where see bibliography).

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