852. Funerary inscription

Description:
Base (w: 0.56 x h: 1.59) of hard limestone on the back a crown and fillet in relief, on the right side a jug, on the left a patera. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. For a graffito in the tomb from which this inscription is presumed to come, see Bartoccini, op. cit. 
Letters:
Not recorded. 
Date:
No indication.  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Found re-used as an impost block in the mosque of Sidi ben Gammu. Apparently from Zdu near Zliten (map ref. M 7818). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Not seen.  
Bibliography:
Bartoccini Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, I:232 ff. 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:
Previous publications. 
Dis
manibus
sacrum
Q(uinti) Licini
5[Pi]sonis
Q(uintus) Licinius
Ṛụf̣ụṣ fil(ius)
patri carissi[mo]
ex uoto
10 d(e) s(uo) f(ecit)
DIS
MANIBVS
SACRVM
QLICINI
5[···]SONIS
QLICINIVS
·····FIL
PATRICARISSI[···]
EXVOTO
10DSF
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dis
<lb n="2" />
manibus
<lb n="3" />
sacrum
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
Licini
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pi
</supplied>
sonis
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Licinius
<lb n="7" />
<unclear reason="" >
Rufus
</unclear>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
ius
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
patri
carissi
<supplied reason="lost" >
mo
</supplied>
<lb n="9" />
ex
uoto
<lb n="10" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ecit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below of Qinitus Licinius Piso; Quintus Licinius Rufus had this made, in accordance with a vow, for his very dear father, at his own expense.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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