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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0662. Funerary fragment

Description: Marble block; the right-hand edge is broken, and the upper edge may be broken also.
Text: Inscribed on the front and carved on the left face with an amphora.
Letters: No description

Date: First to fourth century CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis, Gasr ed-Doueirat. Seen in 1895 with 755, beside the remains of a mausoleum 20 minutes to the South (see 729).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1895)

Interpretive

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-uies ((stop)) iuu[---]
-bus ((stop)) boṇ[---]
memoria[---Ui-]
biae ((stop)) Ann[---]-
5ạṭae ((stop)) quae [uixit an-]
ṇis ((stop)) XVI ((stop)) ụ[irgin-]
ali pudiciti[a ---]

Diplomatic

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UIES IUU[---]
BUS BO.[---]
MEMORIA[---..-]
BIAE ANN[---]
5..AE QUAE[.......-]
.IS XVI .[.....-]
ALIPUDICITI[.---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] to the good memory of [Ui]bia Ann[---]ata, who lived for sixteen years with maidenly modesty [---]

Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903 341 (with sketch), whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22685; IRT, 1952, 662, whence IRT, 2009, 662, whence EDH 059514

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing, Clermont-Ganneau (1895)