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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886s. Funerary inscription

Description: Rectangular base of brown limestone carrying a colonnette: total 0.62. base w: 0.28 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.28)
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.31) with diagonal ornament alomng the edge.
Letters: No measurements

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

------byn Iedo------

Diplomatic

------BYNIEDO------

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

. . . ] son of Iedo [ . . .

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

. . . ] son of Iedo? [ . . .

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1954 16, Elmayer, 1997, 47, Kerr, 2010, 181 (where see bibliography).

Images

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