655. ?Funerary inscription of Byrycth
- Description:
- Block of limestone
- Text:
- One line of Neo-Punic (Neo-Punic 4) follows the Latin and Greek texts. The Neo-Punic text is a translation of the Latin and Greek.
- Letters:
- No description
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: East part of the ruins at Lepcis. Found together with 654 and uniform with it.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Described in 1846, and since lost.Not seen.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:16 and p. 2289; Inscriptiones Graecae ad Res Romanas pertinentes, I:938. 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Byrycth
Balsilechis
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilia
</ex>
mater
Clodi
medici
</ab>
<ab>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Βύρυχθ
Βαλσιάληχ
θυγάτηρ
μήτηρ
Κλωδίου
ἰατροῦ
</ab>
Translation:
Byrycth, daughter of Balsilech, mother of Clodius the doctor (in Latin)
Byrycth, daughter of Balsilech, mother of Clodius the doctor (in Greek)
Commentary:
l. 1. Clodius medicus. Also in 654, ll. 1-2.
- Photographs:
- none.
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