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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0990. Funerary inscription for Balyna

Description: Block of limestone veined with quartz, broken at the top (w: 0.58 x h: 0.38 x d: 0.58)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunk tabella ansata.
Letters: Rough capitals, with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.035; line 4, 5, 0.03; line 6, 0.035-0.04.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: A barren ridge approx. 1 km. south-west of Scetib es-Sedd and 25 km. south of Cussabat (map ref. M 300, 065). Found by Mr. David Oates.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

Diis mani[bus sac(rum)]
Balyn<a>e uixsit an<n>-
orum XXXVIII C(aius) Cae-
cilius Lupus uxori
5suae obsequentis<s>i-
m<a>e feccit structoriq<u>e (sic)

Diplomatic

DIISMANI[.......]
BALYNEUIXSITAN
ORUMXXXVIIICCAE
CILIUSLUPUSUXORI
5SUAEOBSEQUENTISI
MEFECCITSTRUCTORIQE(sic)

6: TR ligatured.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Sacred] to the gods below of Balyna; she lived for thirty-eight years; Caius Caecilius Lupus had this made for his most obedient wife and for the builder.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.18, whence AE 1957.242, whence EDH 017459 IRT, 2009, 990, whence EDH 017459

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