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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886j. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary funerary stele of brown limestone (w: 0.16 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.27)
Text: Inscribed on the face, between horizontal guidelines
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

Flabiu-
s Masin-
[th]an tr[i-]
[b]unu[s]

Diplomatic

FLABIU
SMASIN
[..]ANTR[.-]
[.]UNU[.]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Flavius Masinthan, tribune.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Flavius Masinthan tribune, prince.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Flavius Masinthan, tribune [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.j, whence IRT, 2009, 886j; Goodchild, 1954 13, whence Elmayer, 1997, 44; this edition Kerr, 2010, 180 (where see bibliography.

Images

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