911. Funerary inscription of Rosauaruage

Description:
Panel of limestone. No dimensions recorded. Not seen.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Ghadames: Found during excavation of a tomb close to the Asnam in 1935. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1935) 
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:
MS report by G. Bilotti in the archives of the Superintendency at Tripoli. 
Dis mani[b]us [me]-
moria monume-
ntu Rosauarua-
rage femina bon-
5a feci an(nos) XL m(enses)
Ị[d(ies)] V
DISMANI[··]VS[···]
MORIAMONVME
NTVROSAVARVA
RAGEFEMINABON
5AFECIANXLM
·[··]V
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dis
mani
<supplied reason="lost" >
b
</supplied>
us
<supplied reason="lost" >
me
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
moria
monume
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ntu
Rosauarua
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
rage
femina
bon
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
a
feci
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
nos
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="40" >
XL
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<num value="1" >
<unclear reason="" >
I
</unclear>
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ies
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</ab>

2, monumentu: : so also probably 910.

Translation:

To the gods below, in memory.; I Rosauaruarage, a good woman, had the monument made. I completed forty years, one month and five [days].

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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