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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0154. Funerary inscription for Aemili-

Description: Top left-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.23 x h: 0.24).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.05.

Date: First-third centuries CE

Findspot: Sabratha: found in Regio II, in the street between insula 10 and 13
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Aemili[---]
piissim[---]
uix(it) an[nos ---]

Diplomatic

DM
AEMILI[---]
PIISSIM[---]
UIXAN[...---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. Aemilius [---] most dutiful [---] lived for [---] years [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 154, whence IRT, 2009, 154, whence EDH 059130; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Above: 154; Below: Unidentified; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.29)

   Fig. 2. Above: 154; Below: Unidentified; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 836 Leica)