WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1022. Funerary inscription

Description: Panel with a moulded edge, with upper left corner broken away w: 63.0 x h: 65.0
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.04

Date: Roman imperial period

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: "alla destra del fiume", apparently beside the Wadi Lebdah; recorded in 1910.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1910)

Interpretive

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[---]II
[---]io sa-
[ce]rdoti
Antestus (sic)
5Burucus lib(ertus)
et heres ec (sic)
testamento
eius ex d(ecreto) o(rdinis) p(osuit)

Diplomatic

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[---]II
[---]IOSA
[..]RDOTI
ANTESTUS(sic)
5BURUCUSLIB
ETHERESEC(sic)
TESTAMENTO
EIUSEXDOP

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[ . . . . ] priest, Antestus, Burucus, his freedman and heir, placed (scil. this monument), from his will, in accordance with a decree of the city council

Bibliography: Paci, 1989 4, whence AE 1989.770, EDH 018474

Images

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