922. Funerary inscription for Euasius

Description:
Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.32 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.09) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.025-0.035. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Bu-Ngem: Fort at Bu-Ngem, from the cemetery South of the fort (map ref. X 5206) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:57. 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)
Euasius
qui et Cal-
uana uixit
5 an(num) I m(enses) IIII h(ic) s(itus)
DMS
EVASIVS
QVIETCAL
VANAVIXIT
5ANIMIIIIHS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Euasius
<lb n="3" />
qui
et
Cal
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
uana
uixit
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
num
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="1" >
I
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
h
</abbr>
<ex>
ic
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
itus
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below; Euasius, also called Calvana, (who) lived one year and four months, lies here

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 693 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 693 Leica)

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