244. Funerary inscription

Description:
Not seen  
Text:
Not seen. 
Letters:
Not seen.  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Garden of the former British Consulate in Tripoli Inscription found in 1831 in a vaulted tomb, in Sciara el-Quasc near the Arch of Marcus Aurelius. The associated finds included a coin of Faustina the elder.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Since lost; known only from a contemporary letter in the archives of the British Consulate. 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription from manuscript (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Caeciliaẹ Namgyd-
dụịị Rogati fil(iae)
Saturninus Abas-
5canṭi filius
uxori piissimae
uixit ann(os) XVIIII
D M XIII
DM
CAECILIA·NAMGYD
D···ROGATIFIL
SATVRNINVSABAS
5CAN·IFILIVS
VXORIPIISSIMAE
VIXITANNXVIIII
D MXIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Caecilia
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
Namgyd
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
d
<unclear reason="" >
uii
</unclear>
Rogati
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
iae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Saturninus
Abas
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
can
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
i
filius
<lb n="6" />
uxori
piissimae
<lb n="7" />
uixit
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="19" >
XVIIII
</num>
<lb n="8" />
<orig >
d m
</orig>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below of Caecilia Namgyddus, daughter of Rogatus. Saturninus son of Abascantus for a most dutiful wife; she lived 19 years, 18 months, no days.

Commentary:

ll. 2-3: Namgyduii: For a similar name see Caecilia Namgyddi, 674 , ll. 1, 2.

Photographs:
none.

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