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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1061. Name

Description: Fragment of a block of white limestone broken above and below: w: 0.35 x h: -0.54 x d: 0.31
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a moulded outline, which survives on the left.
Letters: Line 2, 0.045, Line 3, 0.035

Date: CE 247-249 (prosopography)

Findspot: Bu Njem: found near the south gate of the fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: To the north of the village

Interpretive

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C(aius) Comini-
us Ṃ [---]
N[---]
5[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
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Diplomatic

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CCOMINI
US.[---]
N[---]
5[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Caius Cominius [ . . .

Commentary

Presumably M. Aurelius Cominius Cassianus: PIR C 1265, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/2496.

Bibliography: Rebuffat, 1967 67-69, pp.100-101, whence AE 1972.680, EDH 010003

Images

None available (2021).