745. Funerary building inscription
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.60 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.60) of coarse grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- First to fifth century A.D. (terminology)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Gasr el-Gelediah; From the mausoleum to the south of the city. Formerly in Homs Museum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 165. 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 (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Ari
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
nis
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilius
</ex>
Tapafius
<lb
n="3"
/>
Diodorus
Nizaz
<lb
n="4"
/>
sibi
et
suis
<lb
n="5"
/>
fecit
</ab>
Translation:
Tapufius Diodorus Nizaz, son of Arin, had (this) ade for himself and his family.
Commentary:
ll. 2-3. Tapafius Diodorus Nizaz. See 319, n. 8.
- Photographs:
- none.
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