WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886x. Fragment

Description: Stele of brown limestone, with surface badly damaged; no measurements
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is badly damaged, and the upper part of the text completely lost.
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

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[...][..]M
[...][...][...]HIM
[...]ỊAỊCH
[...]ỊFRUṢṢA
5[...]ỊỊYIYCẠU
ỊỊSY DVBRE
[...]ẠP̣Ạ[...]
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Diplomatic

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[···].[··]M
[···].[···].[···]HIM
[···].A.CH
[···].FRU..A
5[···]..YIYC.U
..SY DVBRE
[···]...[···]
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English translation

Translation source:

(Not usefully translatable)

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1954 21 and fig., whence Elmayer, 1997, 52, Kerr, 2010, 183 (where see bibliography).

Images

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