858. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description:
Round-headed stele 
Text:
Inscribed within a border, much battered. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: size not recorded. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Western Djebel: Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720). Seen and photographed by Beguinot in 1923 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1923) 
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 from photograph (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
D(is) m(anibus) [s(acrum)(?)]
Anti[·· ? ··]
Valeṛ[i ·· ? ·· uixit annos]
XXV m[enses]
5 VIIII di[es ·· ? ··]
Iulius [·· ? ··]-
nus T[·· ? ··]
DM[··(?)]
ANTI[·· ? ··]
VALE·[···· ? ··············]
XXVM[······]
5VIIIIDI[····· ? ··]
IVLIVS[·· ? ··]
NVST[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Anti
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
Vale
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
uixit
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
annos
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<num value="25" >
XXV
</num>
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
enses
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<num value="9" >
VIIII
</num>
di
<supplied reason="lost" >
es
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
Iulius
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
nus
T
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[?Sacred] to the gods below of Anti[·· ? ··] Valerius [·· ? ·· ; he lived for] twenty-five [years], nine months ands [·· ? ··] days [·· ? ··] Julius [·· ? ··]nus T[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 563)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 563)

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