WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1112. Funerary inscription

Description: Sandstone cippus, broken above w: 0.435 x h: 0.40
Text: Inscribed on the face within a square panel with flat noulding and (line 9) on the lower border
Letters: Lines 1-8, 0.04; line 9, 0.015

Date: Third century CE (context)

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Gheriat el-Garbia, re-used in the wall of a mosque.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)]
Iulius Ro-
gatianus
filius Ro-
5gatiani co-
rnicinis
uixi<t> anis
XVI me(nsibus) II
dies ṂO[---]

Diplomatic

[...]
IULIUSRO
GATIANUS
FILIUSRO
5GATIANICO
RNICINIS
UIXIANIS
XVIMEII
DIES.O[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to the gods below: Julius Rogatianus, son of the trumpeter Rogatianus, lived 16 years, two months and ? days [ . . .

Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 2, page 96 and plate 39a, whence AE 1967.541, EDH 015187

Images

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