WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0910. Funerary inscription

Description: Panel, probably of limestone. No dimensions recorded.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Irregular capitals.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Ghadames: Copied in the ruins of the Asnam by an Arab, before 1847.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (before 1847)

Interpretive

Dis manibus m-
emoria MORNA
MOCIMENTU
CULIIAIḄICTEM
5 EICIIMIOIUBOM
EECI

Diplomatic

DISMANIBUSM
EMORIAMORNA
MOCIMENTU
CULIIAI.ICTEM
5EICIIMIOIUBOM
EECI

3: Probably monumentu, as 911.
6: Perhaps bona feci, as 911.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below, in memory [---] ?I had (scil. this) ?monument made.

Bibliography: Published from a copy from M. de Bourville, Letronne, 1847 , whence CIL VIII, 1881, 2, 10989; IRT, 1952, 910, whence IRT, 2009, 910, whence EDH 059750

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing provided to Letronne