862. Funerary inscription

Description:
Lower part of a rectangular base (w: 0.33 x h: 0.73 x d: 0.15, height incomplete) of grey limestone,  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.12 x h: 0.45), the centre of which, containing the last three lines, is further recessed.  
Letters:
Second to third century capitals: 0.04-0.05.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Western Djebel: From an uncertain site in the Asabaa plain area 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
now at Tigrinna, near Garian (map ref. Q 283863).  
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 (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)]
Q(uinti) Egn-
ati Po-
lionis
5 u(ixit) an(nos) L
[··]
QEGN
ATIPO
LIONIS
5VANL
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
Egn
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ati
Po
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
lionis
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ixit
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
nos
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="50" >
L
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

[Sacred to the gods below] of Quintus Egnatius Pollio; he lived fifty years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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