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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1647. Ostrakon: Report

Description: Fragment of wallplaster (w: 0.16 x h: 0.245).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements

Date: 253 - 260 (reign)

Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia; found in 1971.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-203a)

Interpretive

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[---]R c. 4 OS c. 5 AREN c. 4[---]
[---]+m ṇos S+++ LẠ c. 4 ỌM c. 4[---]
[---]ịusero Lẹp̣idio ṇ(umero) tṛẹṣ[---]
[---]+++Ṣ++REN++Mac̣o[mades?]++[---]
5[---]se ubi te salbo et propitio[---]
[---]++re sum cum id prẹm+[---]
[---]tura ỊI Durense c. 5[---]
[---]propter opiniones +++[---]
[---]MAR c. 8 iure aduẹṇịṛ[e---]
10[---]Ṇ loco baṛ[ba]ṛọṣ n(umero) quin[---]
[---]renti ((mid-dot)) plus minus quadrạ[ginta ---]
[---] maiores sunt Garamạ[ntes ---]
[---]et c. 5 et Masa- c. 4[---]
[---]aṭ cum interuenẹṛ[---]
15[---]c. 4 quo ṣụnt Bocus Seb+[---]
[---]c. 8 -ias toṭos oct[---]
[---]c. 8 domini iuse[runt ---]
[---]ROBE+++uenirẹ et+[---]
[---]m defere u++PẠ[---]
20[---]c. 16[---]
[---] dominẹ c. 9[---]

Diplomatic

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[---]R····OS·····AREN····[---]
[---]·M.OSS···L.····.M····[---]
[---].USEROL..IDIO.T...[---]
[---]···.··REN··MA.O[.....]··[---]
5[---]SEUBITESALBOETPROPITIO[---]
[---]··RESUMCUMIDPR.M·[---]
[---]TURA.IDURENSE·····[---]
[---]PROPTEROPINIONES···[---]
[---]MAR········IUREADU....[.---]
10[---].LOCOBA.[..]...NQUIN[---]
[---]RENTI · PLUSMINUSQUADR.[.....---]
[---]MAIORESSUNTGARAM.[....---]
[---]ET·····ETMASA····[---]
[---]A.CUMINTERUEN..[---]
15[---]····QUO..NTBOCUSSEB·[---]
[---]········IASTO.OSOCT[---]
[---]········DOMINIIUSE[....---]
[---]ROBE···UENIR.ET·[---]
[---]MDEFEREU··P.[---]
20[---]················[---]
[---]DOMIN.·········[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] I will give orders to ?Lepidius, to unit 3? [ . . . ] ? to/from Maco[mades . . . ] where, with you safe and favourable, [ . . . ] I am with [ . . . ] 2 of ?Dura [ . . . ] on account of reports [ . . . ] by law to approach [ . . . ] in the place ?barbarians, a unit of five/fifty? [ . . . ] more or less forty [ . . . ] most are Garamantians [ . . . ] and [ . . . ] and Masa[- . . . ] when they come ?among [ . . . ] where they are Bocus Seb[- . . . ] all eight/eighty? [ . . . ] our lords order [ . . . ] to come and [ . . . ] bring [ . . . ] (scil. you) lord.

Commentary

Line 16: Perhaps a location, Iastoros? (Marichal)

Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 147, whence HGV 73297, DDbDP o.bu.njem.147.


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