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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1048. Fragment

Description: Left part of a limestone block: w: 0.40 x h: 0.29.
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is moulded above and below, within guideliens
Letters: Local fourth-fifth century capitals; lines 1 and 4, 0.04; lines 2-3, 0.03; line 3, TH in ligature.

Date: Fourth-fifth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Wādī Sawfajjīn: Wadi Nfed: in Wadi umm el Acherab, in situ above the door of Gasr Bugar
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1959).

Interpretive

FLANHIAU [---]
NDHUSG̣VDRVCA [---]
BUTH AIUBẠṆỌṆỊ[---]
ṚIANRANOṆỊ[---]

Diplomatic

FLANHIAU[---]
NDHUS.VDRVCA[---]
BUTH AIUB.....[---]
.IANRANO..[---]

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Not usefully translatable; buth in line 3 is possibly byth, daughter.

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 6 and plate XVIII.c, whence AE 1962, page 73 Elmayer, 1997, 61, Kerr, 2010, 196 (where see bibliography)

Images

   Fig. 1. From a squeeze (R.Johnson)