WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1133. Funerary inscription

Description: Broken limestone stele with a triangular pediment w: 0.48 x h: 0.92 x d: 0.11
Text: Inscribed in the pediment (line 1) and on the face below
Letters: 0.045-0.063

Date: First quarter of the third century (context)

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Gheriat el-Garbia, re-used in a house in the Berber village: found in 2009.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Excavation depot; inventory 09/9.

Interpretive

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) ((stop))
T(itus) ((stop)) Claudius
Donatus
mil(es) ((stop)) leg(ionis) III Au-
5g(ustae) ((stop)) P(iae) U(indicis) uixit
ann(is) ((stop)) LII ((stop))

Diplomatic

DMS •
T • CLAUDIUS
DONATUS
MIL • LEGIIIAU
5G • PUUIXIT
ANN • LII •

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to the gods below: Titus Claudius Donatus, soldier of the Third Legion Augusta Pia Vindex, lived 52 years.

Bibliography: Mackensen, 2010 381-383, whence AE 2010.1784; Mackensen, 2012 58, note 1, whence EDCS 59600074; Mackensen, 2021 09/9 and plate 1.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Mackensen, n.d.)

   Fig. 2. Drawing (Mackensen, n.d.)


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