Description:
Limestone
lintel
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata flanked by volutes (die, h:
0.52 0.45).
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.02-0.03.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem:
Ghirza (map ref. W 7052): "on a tablet fixed on the east face of the building",
Denham and Clapperton;
The mausoleum is that illustrated by De Mathuisieulx, Nouvelles Archives, XII (1904) pls. VII, 1 and VIII, 1; and by Bauer,
Afr. Ita. VI (1935) 63, fig. 5.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
M(archius) Chullam [et] Uarnychsi-
n pater et ma[te]r Marchi
Nimmire et [..M]accurasa-
n qui eis hec memori-
5am feceru[nt d]iscussi-
mus rati[oci]nio ad
ea eroca[tu]m est sum-
tos merc[e]dibus in n-
ummo (denariorum) foll[is] singula-
10res numero quadragi-
nta quinque [milia] sesce-
ntos preter c[i]b[aria] op-
era[nt]ibus felic[iter?---]
uisitent fili et n[ep]ot[es]
Diplomatic
MCHULLAM[..]UARNYCHSI
NPATERETMA[..]RMARCHI
NIMMIREET[··.]ACCURASA
NQUIEISHECMEMORI
5AMFECERU[...]ISCUSSI
MUSRATI[...]NIOAD
EAEROCA[..]MESTSUM
TOSMERC[.]DIBUSINN
UMMO 𐆖 FOLL[..]SINGULA
10RESNUMEROQUADRAGI
NTAQUINQUE[.....]SESCE
NTOSPRETERC[.]B[....]OP
ERA[..]IBUSFELIC[....---]
UISITENTFILIETN[..]OT[..]
4: Perhaps Maccurasan. see Corippus, Iohann. V. 311.
7: erocatum sic
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Marchius Chullam and Varnychsin, father and mother of the Marchii Nimmira and [M?]accurasan, who had this memorial built for
them. We paid out in reckoning for these things, in coin on salaries a total of forty-five thousand six hundred folles, in
addition to the food for the workmen. May their sons and grandsons visit it happily.
Bibliography: Denham and Clapperton, 1826, II, 127-8, no. 1; Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1904 25, with corrections by M. Toutain, whence AE 1904.215, CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22660; IRT, 1952, 898, whence IRT, 2009, 898, whence EDH 033567; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 346)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 3. Face: Kenrick, 2008
