Description: Two
blocks of
limestone, apparently adjoining; together
w:
1.66 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.37
Text:
Inscribed on one face within an inset panel (w:
0.91 x h:
0.39)
Letters: Perhaps third century; 0.06
Date: Third century? (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Gasr er-Resciada near the Garian-Mizda road, in the ruins of a mausoleum
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1960).
2: Ius[tini or Ius[tiniani are also possible; another cognomen giving a genitive in -is presumably followed. Brogan-Reynolds, 1960
3: F(ili) may be the genitive, indicating that Tarquitius was the son of Gabinius, or a plural, indicating that his sons,
whose names followed, made the monument. Brogan-Reynolds, 1960
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Sacred to the gods below. (scil. Tomb of) Tarqitius Iust[- . . . ] ?son of Gabinius; Bagis and Iu[- made it]
Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 4, whence AE 1962, page 73
Images
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