733. Funerary inscripion for Nyftha
- Description:
- Hexagonal panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.025) of yellow marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals (not earlier than third century): 0.03.
- Date:
- Not earlier than the third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Wadi Er-saf; From the old cemetery on the West side between Lepcis and Homs
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 29.10.27 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Nyfthae
Translation:
To the gods below of Nyftha.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.11)
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