849. Funerary inscription
- Description:
- Stele (w: 0.28 x h: 0.64 x d: 0.19) of brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within an incised border (die, 0.230.19).
- Letters:
- Rough capitals, not earlier than third century A.D.: 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- Not earlier than third century A.D (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Coastal Belt: Stated locally to have come from Podere 203, Micca Village, near the Tripoli-Azizia road.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- At the Doctor's house, Bianchi village (map ref. L 193473).
- 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"
/>
Dis
manib
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
us
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinti
</ex>
Aemili
<lb
n="3"
/>
Frontonis
<lb
n="4"
/>
Massenaga
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
nis
filius
Translation:
To the gods below of Qunintus Aemilius Fronto Massenagan ?his son.
Commentary:
The names are all in the genitive, but there my be a mistake in the text, filius for filii, so that Fronto was the son of Massenagen.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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