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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0236. Funerary inscription for a centurion

Description: A rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: No description

Date: ?Third-fourth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: A rock-cut tomb near Tripoli City; described in 1670.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1670)

Interpretive

Bonae memoriae Sti[d]dinis centurionis
uixit an(nos)

Diplomatic

BONAEMEMORIAESTI[.]DINISCENTURIONIS
UIXITAN.

2: an(nos) R Cumont, 1925

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the good memory of Stiddin, centurion; he lived ?50 years [---]

Bibliography: Girard, 1685 f.39v., whence Cumont, 1925 155, 164 , whence AE 1926.139; IRT, 1952, 236, whence IRT, 2009, 236, whence EDH 024244

Images

   Fig. 1. Girard, Histoire, f. 39-40 (Source gallica.bnf.fr)