WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1101. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone block, w: 0.93 x h: 0.455 x d: 0.78.
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a tabella ansata, w: 0.765 x h: 0.34; i to the left of ii, iii across the face below both texts
Letters: 0.05

Date: Mid second century CE (context)

Findspot: Western Jabal: in the remains of a tomb at Al-Brahama.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
Flavi Uenus-
ti uix(it) annis
LXX
5filii merenti

Diplomatic

DMS
FLAVIUENUS
TIUIXANNIS
LXX
5FILIIMERENTI

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 2020

Sacred to the departed spirits of Flavius Venustus, (who) lived 70 years, (his) children (set this up) to a deserving (parent).

Bibliography: Elmayer, 2020, 26, no.2

Images

None available (2021).