WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0903. Uncertain text

Description: Dimensions not recorded.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel, with scrolls at either end.
Letters: Not recorded.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Ghirza, on or near the mausolea; found by Denham and Clapperton in 1824.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1824)

Interpretive

NHIABHIU
IUANHIṢṚY
AMURỌẠṆẠṆẸṂẠ

Diplomatic

NHIABHIU
IUANHI..Y
AMUR........

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Not usefully translatable.

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Nhiabhi Viva Nhinisry lived in grace

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Utterly unintelligible

Bibliography: Described IRT, 1952, 903, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 903, whence EDH 059744; Text Denham and Clapperton, 1826 II, 130, n.4, whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22663, Elmayer, 1997, 64, Kerr, 2010, 202 (where see bibliography).

Images

   Fig. 1. Sketch after Denham and Clapperton 308 (from IRT p. 223)