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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1108. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone block: no measurements
Text: Inscribed on one face; within tabella ansata, flanked by reliefs of birds (eagles?): the bird on the left is holding an animal, the one on the right is holding a bird. i cut between guideleines; ii a little rougher, without guidelines.
Letters: Local fourth-fifth century capitals; 0.02

Date: Fourth-fifth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Gasr Isawi, in Wadi Migdal, in situ above the door.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1959).

Interpretive

i
Marcius Metasan
Fidelis filius et F̣ḷ(abi) H-
anochulam et Ṣeị-
c[...] et Fidẹḷ[is] nepo-
5t[es .]SSỊPSA F̣ḷạbiaẹ
et P̣ṾỊỊ hanc ṭ[ab?]ulam
instituerunt [..]U [.] et
SDP[.]UIS bibant
ii
NYMASAGENPVVBUNOM
MRAYSYNAU[.]YSFELUṂBUL
ẠYBYDBANNOM

Diplomatic

i
MARCIUSMETASAN
FIDELISFILIUSET..H
ANOCHULAMET.E.
C[···]ETFID..[..]NEPO
5T[..·]SS.PSA...BIA.
ET....HANC.[..]ULAM
INSTITUERUNT[··]U[·]ET
SDP[·]UISBIBANT
ii
NYMASAGENPVVBUNOM
MRAYSYNAU[·]YSFELU.BUL
.YBYDBANNOM

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Marcius Metasan son of Fidelis and the Flavii Hanochulam and Seic[- . . . ] grandsons of Fidelis and ? Flaviae [ . . .] established this ?plaque [ . . .] ?may they live [ . . .

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 5 and plate XIX, whence AE 1962, page 73, Elmayer, 1997, 55.

Images

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