894. Fragmentary funerary inscription
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 1.60 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.60) of limestone. There is a small niche above the inscribed panel.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
- Letters:
- Third to fourth centuries capitals: 0.05-0.06.
- Date:
- Third to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Faschiet el-Habs in the Wadi Merdum (map ref. R 4748), a little North West of the crossing of the road Beni Ulid - Bir Dufan. Seen and transcribed by Goodchild in 1948
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1948)
- 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, Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
a
D(is)
m(anibus)
s(acrum)
Nabor-
surṇiạ
auo
5sanu
n(umero) LXXX
S vac. A vac. T vac. H
[··]M vac. I vac. L vac. I vac. M vac. E
[··]D vac. V vac. O
10[··]S
b
Nabor-
surṇiạ
auo
5sanu
n(umero) LXXX
S vac. A vac. T vac. H
[··]M vac. I vac. L vac. I vac. M vac. E
[··]D vac. V vac. O
10[··]S
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
acrum
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Nabor
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
sur
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
i
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
<lb
n="4"
/>
auo
<lb
n="5"
/>
sanu
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
umero
</ex>
<num
value="80"
>
LXXX
</num>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<orig
>
s
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
a
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
t
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
h
</orig>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
m
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
i
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
l
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
i
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
m
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
e
</orig>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
d
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
u
<space
extent="1"
unit=""
/>
o
</orig>
<lb
n="10"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
s
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
ny
</orig>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
>
fo
</orig>
5, The Punic equivalent of vixit annos; see 855.
Translation:
a. Sacred to the gods below. Naborsurnia lived eighty years [·· ? ··].
b. (not translatable.)
Commentary:
In l.7 a subsidiary text in smaller lettering appears to have been inserted in the space vacant at the beginning of the line.
In ll. 8-10, the left-hand margin of the stone is missing but it is not clear whether any letters have been lost.
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