860. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description:
Rough block (w: 0.55 x h: 0.85 x d: 0.23) of yellow limestone 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. Two lines in another script, possibly debased Neo-Punic, follow the Latin text. A second inscription is illegible from erosion. 
Letters:
Rough capitals, not earlier than third century A.D.: 0.04-0.05.  
Date:
Not earlier than third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Western Djebel: at Saniet el-Crema (map ref. Q 128760) on a small hillock about 200 m. East of the well. The site of a semi-Romanized Libyan cemetery. Seen and photographed by Goodchild in 1947. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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 (Goodchild) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Flabi[·· ? ··]
Mysu[·· ? ··]-
n uixit
5a(nnos) XL
DM
FLABI[·· ? ··]
MYSV[·· ? ··]
NVIXIT
5AXL
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Flabi
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
Mysu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
n
uixit
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
a
</abbr>
<ex>
nnos
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="40" >
XL
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. [·· ? ··] Flabi[·· ? ··] Mysu[·· ? ··] he/she lived for forty years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 382)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 382)

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