867. Funerary inscription for Issicuar
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.70 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.19) of brown limestone
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.30 a) In the panel. b) In the right ansa. Left ansa obliterated. There are formal sprays in the angles.
- Letters:
- Late capitals: 0.05-0.07.
- Date:
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: From the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Romanelli, Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXIV-V: 39-42, no. 8 : L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1921:88. 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Bibe
Issicua
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
r
quia
mer
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
eris
cum
fi
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
li
tui
Semp
<lb
n="5"
/>
et
Eisrelia
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
a
</orig>
<orig
>
i
</orig>
Translation:
a. Live Issicuar because you deserve it, together with your children Semp (?) and Eisrelia.
b. (Not usefully translatable.)
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 684 Leica)
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