859. Fragmentary funerary inscription
- Description:
- Left-hand side of a broken block (dimensions not recorded).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, flanked by a palm-branch in relief between volutes in place of the customary ansa of a tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: size not recorded.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Western Djebel: at El-Ghelaa, 4 km. East of Jefren (map ref. U 865790).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Seen and photographed in the early days of the Italian occupation. Later transferred to Jefren, where it was again photographed, already much damaged (Sopr. A 862) and now lost. Not seen again.
- 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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription from photograph (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Translation:
Marcus Ulpius [·· ? ··] of the tribe of the Chinitii, had this made [for himself and] his family [·· ? ··] Septim[i·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The name Chinitius here is presumably an ethnic. For the tribe Cinithii or Chnithii see Tac. Ann. II.52, Pliny N.H. V.4.30, Ptol. IV.3.22, CIL, VIII, 10500, and Nouvelles Archives XV, p. 311, from Gigthis. Their affinities are apparently with the territory to the West, and the appearance of this name in the Gebel Nefusa suggests a closer connexion between that area and the West than had been supposed.
- Photographs:
- none.
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