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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1219. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone block crowning a sculpted false door, from the façade of a tomb. .
Text: Inscribed on the face, lines 1-3 within a tabula ansata, line 4 to the left of and within a second tabula.
Letters: Tall clear standard forms

Date: second half of the second century CE (context)

Findspot: Wadi Chanafes area, precise location unknown
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Bani Walid Museum (2008).

Interpretive

mynꞩyfth mu felu Pudens
uySeuere labunom Amsua-
la byn Masuna by((stop)) (denariis) ↀocc
uybal ars ys fel Regine YSIASOBBYGṆNO

Diplomatic

MYNꞨYFTHMUFELUPUDENS
UYSEUERELABUNOMAMSUA
LABYNMASUNABY 𐆖 ↀOCC
UYBALARSYSFELREGINEYSIASOBBYG.NO

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Mausoleum, which made Pudens and Severus for their father Amsuala son of Masuna, for 1700 denarii, and the architect who made it was Reginus who . . .

Bibliography: Kerr, 2010, 218

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Kenrick, 2008

   Fig. 2. Monument: Kenrick, 2008