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
NY
FO
a
DMS
NABOR
SVR·I·
AVO
5SANV
NLXXX
S A T H
[··]M I L I M E
[··]D V O
10[··]S
b
NY
FO
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
<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>
umero
</ex>
</expan>
<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>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
ny
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
fo
</orig>
</ab>
</div>

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.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 340)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 340)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 341)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 341)

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