Description:
Round-topped stele (w: 0.38 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.05, height incomplete) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed within a narrow border. 
Letters:
Second to third century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.055; ll. 2-6, 0.045-0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Western Djebel: Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:5 = 10993 = 10486; Romanelli, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, III:111. 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)
[Iu]lia Faus-
tina uixit
pia ann(os) XXVIII
5 m(enses) XI d(ies) XX̣V Iuḷ(ius) Hon-
[or]atus lib(ertus) c(uram) ẹ(git)
DMS
[···]LIAFAVS
TINAVIXIT
PIAANNXXVIII
5MXIDX·VIV·HON
[···]ATVSLIBC·
<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" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Iu
</supplied>
lia
Faus
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
tina
uixit
<lb n="4" />
pia
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="28" >
XXVIII
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
XI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ies
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="25" >
X
<unclear reason="" >
X
</unclear>
V
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
Iu
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
ius
</ex>
</expan>
Hon
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
or
</supplied>
atus
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
ertus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
uram
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
git
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Julia Faustaina lived dutifully for twenty-eight years, eleven months and twenty-five days; Julius Honoratus, her freedman, undertook the charge( i.e. of tomb construction).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 250)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 250)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 694 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 694 Leica)

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