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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1224. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragment of a Sandstone cippus, w: 0.24 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.30
Text: Inscribed within a simple panel
Letters: 0.03

Date: ?Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Gheriat el-Garbia
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[D(is) m(anibus)] s(acrum)
[---]natus
[san]u ṾIỊ

Diplomatic

[..]S
[---]NATUS
[...]U.I.

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) . . .-natus (lived?) 7 years

Commentary

Di Vita suggested the V in line 3 might be v(ixit)

Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 5, page 99, whence Kerr, 2010, 200 (where see bibliography)

Images

None available (2021).