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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1035. Funerary inscription

Description: A small altar of limestone w: 0.38 x h: 0.345 x d: 0.35
Text: Inscribed, not very competently, on three faces: i on the left side, ii at the front, iii on the right side.
Letters: Irregular: 0.02-0.065

Date: Late first - early second century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: used to fill the entry of a hypogaeum in the West Necropolis.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

i
Diis Manibus
ii
Aristonis
Adrumucus
s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit)
iii
Diodorus
Adrumucus
frater cura-
uit

Diplomatic

i
DIISMANIBUS
ii
ARISTONIS
ADRUMUCUS
SPF
iii
DIODORUS
ADRUMUCUS
FRATERCURA
UIT

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): To the gods below (ii): (scil. tomb) of Aristo: Adrumucus made (scil. it) from his own money; (iii): Diodorus Adrumucus, (scil. his) brother, oversaw (scil. the work).

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1997, 1, 135-136, whence AE 1997.1584, EDH 049860

Images

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