989. Funerary inscription for Q. Porcius Iovinus
- Description:
- Block of limestone (w: 1.10 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.60)
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata (w: 0.59 x h: 0.37).
- Letters:
- Graceful capitals with Rustic forms, probably third century: ll. 1-4, 0.07-0.08; l. 5, 0.03.
- Date:
- Probably third century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- The Eastern Djebel: To the south of a ruined gasr, 16 km. south-east of Cussabat and 4 km. north-east of Gasr Umm er-Raml; Found by Mr. David Oates. (map ref. M 409, 224).1
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.17.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
Translation:
To the gods below of Quintus Portius Iovinus; he lived for 10 (plus ?) years. Quintus Portius Reginus, his most dutiful father, had this made for a peaceable son.
Commentary:
The gasr is constructed for the most part of undressed stones and is clearly later in date than the inscription. It is probable that a mausoleum was demolished and robbed to provide material for the gasr, and this mausoleum might be associated with the olive farms of which a number of traces survive in the area.
For the formula filio quieto see also 692 at Lepcis.
- Photographs:
- none.
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