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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1221. Funerary inscription

Description: Plaster on the wall of a rock-cut tomb: no measurements. 852 apparently came from the same tomb.
Text: Incised in the plaster.
Letters: No description

Date: Second century CE (context)

Findspot: Coastal Belt: Zdu near Zliten, in a tomb; recorded in 1923
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

fel thy bur Licini
Piso lybythem lisnim
uylysthim uylySar-
unu byn sanu LXXIIII
5felo

Diplomatic

FELTHYBURLICINI
PISOLYBYTHEMLISNIM
UYLYSTHIMUYLYSAR
UNUBYNSANULXXIIII
5FELO

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Licini(us) Piso had the tomb made for his two parents, his wife, and for Sarynu who lived 74 years.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Licinius Piso made this tomb for his two parents and for his wife and for Sarunu aged 74 years, he made it.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1927 232-3, with a drawing, whence Elmayer, 1997, 6, Kerr, 2010, 225 (where see bibliography)

Images

None available (2021).