WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0901. Funerary inscription

Description: Not recorded.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: All instances of the letter A are missing the crossbar.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Ghirza (map ref. W 7052). Seen and described by Denham and Clapperton in 1824, near 900, 902; later removed to Istanbul.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Now inaccessible in the vaults of the Cinili Kösk, Istanbul.

Interpretive

ạmemoria mu
fela Thual-
ath byth N-
asif mu fela
5lybythha BINIXEMA

Diplomatic

.MEMORIAMU
FELATHUAL
ATHBYTHN
ASIFMUFELA
5LYBYTHHABINIXEMA

1: MMEMORIA
5: BILINEMA

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

?In memory of ?Mufelath

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Monument which was made by Thualath daughter of Nasif.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

The memorial which made Thualath, the daughter of Nasif, which she made for her parents . . .

Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881 744 and CIL VIII, 1881 10971; CIL VIII suppl.1, 1891. 10991 IRT, 1952, 901, whence IRT, 2009, 901, whence EDH 059742, Elmayer, 1984 101-102, Elmayer, 1997, 62, Kerr, 2010, 200 (where see bibliography)

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