Description:
Block (w: 0.72 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.29, width incomplete) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a roughly incised tabella ansata. 
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.06-0.07. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: Seen by Bartoccini among the ruins of a small mausoleum, immediately West of the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755).  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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)
Calpurniae [·· ? ··]-
n u[i]xit aṇṇ(os) sep̣[t ·· ? ··]
DM
CALPVRNIAE[·· ? ··]
NV[··]XITA··SE·[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Calpurniae
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
n
u
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
xit
<expan>
<abbr>
a
<unclear reason="" >
nn
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
se
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below of Calpurnia [·· ? ··] she lived seven (or seventeen or seventy-plus) years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 686 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 686 Leica)

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