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856. Funerary inscription

Description:: Round-topped stele (w: 0.38 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.05, height incomplete) of brown limestone.
Text:: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters:: Second to third century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.055; ll. 2-6, 0.045-0.04.
Date:: Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Western Djebel: Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720)
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Tripoli Castle.
Bibliography:: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:5 = 10993 = 10486; Romanelli, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, III:111. 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)

D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
[Iu]lia Faus-
tina uixit
pia ann(os) XXVIII
5 m(enses) XI d(ies) XX̣V Iuḷ(ius) Hon-
[or]atus lib(ertus) c(uram) ẹ(git)

DMS
[···]LIAFAVS
TINAVIXIT
PIAANNXXVIII
5MXIDX·VIV·HON
[···]ATVSLIBC·

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

anibus

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

acrum

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

lia

Faus

tina

uixit

pia

<expan>

<abbr>

ann

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

XXVIII

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

enses

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ies

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</unclear>

</abbr>

<ex>

ius

</ex>

</expan>

Hon

</supplied>

atus

<expan>

<abbr>

lib

</abbr>

<ex>

ertus

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

uram

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</unclear>

</abbr>

<ex>

git

</ex>

</expan>

</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Julia Faustaina lived dutifully for twenty-eight years, eleven months and twenty-five days; Julius Honoratus, her freedman, undertook the charge( i.e. of tomb construction).