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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886k. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary stele of brown limestone (w: 0.25 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.25)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.03-0.04, final line 0.08.

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

Flabius Isi-
guari tribu-
nus byn Iarnv-
han BYC
5TIN ST

Diplomatic

FLABIUSISI
GUARITRIBU
NUSBYNIARNV
HANBYC
5TINST

English translation

Translation by:

Flavius, ?son of Isignas, tribune.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Flavius Isicuari, tribunus, prince (or: chieftain), erected this stele

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Flavius Isiguari, tribune, son of Iarnuhan [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.k (part), whence IRT, 2009, 886k; Goodchild, 1954 14, whence Elmayer, 1984 100, Elmayer, 1997, 45; this edition Kerr, 2010, 181 (where see bibliography).

Images

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