891. Fragmentary funerary inscription of Aurellius Nazmuri
- Description:
- Two blocks from a Doric architrave (w: 2.15 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.27, complete; and w: 1.05 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.27, left end broken). The frontage of the mausoleum measures w: 7.04 x , and these are probably the first and part of the last of three blocks forming the inscription.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century A.D. capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Gasr el-Banat, Wadi Nfed (called Lachadie by De Mathuisieulx map ref. R 8906), lying in front of a well-preserved mausoleum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22665; Bauer, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VI:73, figs. 24-5. 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"
/>
Aurellio
Nazmuri
parenti
et
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ma
</supplied>
tri
Aurelli
Maior
<lb
n="2"
/>
et
Magnus
et
Arcadius
fil
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
parentibus
</supplied>
piissimis
fecerunt
1, Written NAZ MVRI.
Translation:
To Aurellius Nazmur their father and [·· ? ·· their] mother, the Aurellii Maior and Magnus and Arcadius, sons, [·· ? ··] had this made for their most dutiful [parents].
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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