866. Fragmentary funerary inscription
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.72 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.29, width incomplete) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a roughly incised tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals: 0.06-0.07.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: Seen by Bartoccini among the ruins of a small mausoleum, immediately West of the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Calpurniae
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
n
u
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
xit
<expan>
<abbr>
a
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
nn
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
os
</ex>
se
<unclear
reason=""
>
p
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To the gods below of Calpurnia [·· ? ··] she lived seven (or seventeen or seventy-plus) years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 686 Leica)
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