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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1121. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone column h: 1.79
Text: Inscribed i, within a wreath and ii, below, within a rectangular cartouche (h: 0.42)
Letters: i, 0.06; ii, line 1 0.045, lines 2-7, 0.04

Date: Third to fourth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Coastal Belt, Ras Umm el-'Izz
Original location: Findspot>
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
B(onae) F(ortunae)
2
Dis
monumentu(m)
Balsilechi
Subath qui
5uixit anno-
rum (sic) CX et
supra

Diplomatic

i
BF
2
DIS
MONUMENTU
BALSILECHI
SUBATHQUI
5UIXITANNO
RUM(sic)CXET
SUPRA

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): To Good Fortune (ii): To the gods: memorial of Balisech (scil. child of?) Subath, who lived 110 years and more.

Bibliography: Brogan, 1962 whence AE 1964.194, EDH 016048

Images

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