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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1116. Funerary inscription

Description: Sandstone cippus, w: 0.30 x h: 0.42
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.045-0.05

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

( vac. ) D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) ( vac. )
Grania Hos-
pita u(ixit) a(nnos) XXI
h(ic) s(ita) e(st) ( vac. )

Diplomatic

      DMS      
GRANIAHOS
PITAUAXXI
HSE      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to the gods below: Grania Hospita lived 21 years; she lies here.

Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 6, p. 99 and plate 39e, whence AE 1967.543, EDH 015193

Images

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