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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1137. Funerary inscription

Description: Damaged limestone panel w: 0.73 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.26
Text: Inscribed within a panel
Letters: 0.025-0.03

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Wadi Antar, in the ruins of a mausoleum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Dis Manibus T(itus) Flauius [---]-
-ninus Achul(?) Uuzale f(ilius) Mas-
than[---] n(epos) ui[xit a]nnis XXIX
monim[e]ntum fec(erunt) [---]athob-
5bab et Ime[---nsis]
inpensis Thaneci f(iliae) Sanmilc
Lep(citanae) ite(m) matris eorum (denariis) CCL(i.e. ducentis miliis quinquaginta)

Diplomatic

DISMANIBUSTFLAUIUS[---]
NINUSACHULUUZALEFMAS
THAN[---]NUI[....]NNISXXIX
MONIM[.]NTUMFEC[---]ATHOB
5BABETIME[---....]
INPENSISTHANECIFSANMILC
LEPITEMATRISEORUM 𐆖 CCL(i.e. DUCENTISMILIISQUINQUAGINTA)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To the gods below: Titus Flavius [ , ,-]ninus ?chul son of Uuzale, gradson of Masthan[- . . ] lived 29 years. [ . . ]athobab and Ime[- ] made the monument, with the funds of Sanmilc, daughter of Thanecus, a Lepcitanian and their mother, 250,000 denarii

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1985 , whence AE 1985.850, EDH 008529

Images

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