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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0911. Funerary inscription of Rosauaruage

Description: Panel of limestone. No dimensions recorded.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Irregular capitals.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE

Findspot: Ghadames: Found during excavation of a tomb close to the Asnam in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1935)

Interpretive

Dis mani[b]us [me-]
moria monume-
ntu Rosauarua-
rage femina bon-
5a feci an(nos) XL m(enses)
[d(ies)] V

Diplomatic

DISMANI[.]US[..-]
MORIAMONUME
NTUROSAUARUA
RAGEFEMINABON
5AFECIANXLM
.[..]V

2: monumentu : so also probably 910.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below, in memory.; I Rosauaruarage, a good woman, had the monument made. I completed forty years, one month and five [days].

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 911, whence IRT, 2009, 911, whence EDH 059751; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR