Fragmentary funerary inscription of Aurellius NazmuriJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Two blocks from a Doric architrave (2.150.320.27, complete; and
1.050.320.27, left end broken).
The frontage of the mausoleum measures 7.04, and these are probably the first and part of the last of three blocks forming the inscription.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
Third century A.D. capitals: 0.07.
Date
Third century A.D.
(lettering)
Locations
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.
Unknown
Bibliography
, VIII:22665;
Bauer, , VI:73, figs. 24-5.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
AurellioNazmuriparentietmatriAurelliMaioretMagnusetArcadiusfiliparentibuspiissimisfecerunt
Apparatus
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.