883. Funerary inscription for Aelia Donata

Description:
Block (w: 0.34 x h: 0.43) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face.  
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.5. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Upper Sofeggin Basin: From an unidentified site in the Upper Sofeggin area 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now built into the central courtyard of the Fort at Mizda.  
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)
Aelia D-
[o]nata uixit
[a]nnis trib(us)
[··]MS
AELIAD
[··]NATAVIXIT
[··]NNISTRIB
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Aelia
D
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
nata
uixit
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
nnis
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Aelia Donata lived for three years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. neg. ETAL)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. neg. ETAL)

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