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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0850. Funerary inscription for Ulpia Rogatilla Arisuth Mather

Description: Lower part of a moulded base of limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Standard forms: no measurements.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Coastal Belt: Found built into the mosque of Sidi Ali el-Fergiani (between Lepcis and Zliten, map ref. M 619237).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[U]lp̣iae Rogatilla[e]
Arisuth Mather
L(ucius) Canuleius Uerna ludi
mag(ister) uxori carissimae
5( vac. ) fecit ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[.]L.IAEROGATILLA[.]
ARISUTHMATHER
LCANULEIUSUERNALUDI
MAGUXORICARISSIMAE
5      FECIT      

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Ulpia Rogatilla Arisuth Mather; Lucius Canuleius Verna, master (scil. ?of the school), had this made for his very dear wife.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 850, whence IRT, 2009, 850, whence EDH 059701; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CTV 66)