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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886t. Funerary inscription

Description: Stele of brown limestone, w: 0.23 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.23)
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.035

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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[..Fl]ạb-
i byn Ua-
sira BAB
ART IMST
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Diplomatic

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[··..].B
IBYNUA
SIRABAB
ARTIMST
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English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Flavius son of Usira Babar erected (this) stele.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

. . Fl]avi(us) son of Vasira [ . . .

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1954 17, Elmayer, 1997, 48, this edition Kerr, 2010, 182 (where see bibliography).

Images

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