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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1100. Military funerary inscription

Description: Stele of brown limestone with a sharply ponted peak w: 0.40 x h: 1.15 x d: 0.025
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Third-fourth century; lines 1-6, 0.05; lines 7-8, 0.025

Date: Third-fourth century (lettering)

Findspot: Jabal Nafusah: Ain el-Auenia; found south of the Jefren-Zintan road, in 1959
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum)
Migin(?) p(ius)
mil(es) leg(ionis) III
Aug(ustae) uixit
5an(nos) CXI (sic) mi-
litauit an(nos)
VIIII fec(erun)t conta-
bernales (sic) aeius (sic)

Diplomatic

DMS
MIGINP
MILLEGIII
AUGUIXIT
5ANCXI(sic)MI
LITAUITAN
VIIIIFECTCONTA
BERNALES(sic)AEIUS(sic)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to the gods below: Migin, a faithful soldier of the Third Legion Augusta lived 111 years, served 9 years; his tent-fellows made (scil. the tomb).

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 2, and plate XVIII, whence AE 1962.305, EDH 016966

Images

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