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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1115. Funerary inscription

Description: Three fragments of a sandstone cippus; no measurements.
Text: Inscribed on the face within a panel lines 2-5 and in an arch above (line 1)
Letters: Well cut; 0.053-0.075

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)]
( vac. ) Maṛiuṣ ( vac. )
Ianua[r]ịus
miles leg(ionis) ỊỊỊ Ạ[ug(ustae)]
5uixit anni[s]
( vac. ) XXXX ( vac. )

Diplomatic

DM[.]
      MA.IU.      
IANUA[.].US
MILESLEG....[...]
5UIXITANNI[.]
      XXXX      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[Sacred] to the gods below: Marius Ianuarius, soldier of the Third Legion Augusta, lived 40 years.

Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 1, page 95 and plate 38d, whence AE 1967.540, EDH 015184

Images

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