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The Reinterpretation of the Latino-Punic Inscriptions IRT 889 and 893 from Tripolitania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

A. F. Elmayer
A. F. Elmayer*
Affiliation:
University College, London
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This inscription was found over the door of wadi el-Bir near Shemech (Wadi Soffegin) and is now in Lepcis Museum. It consists of three lines and it reads:

The inscription has been treated previously by Goodchild (1950, 137), Sznycer (1965, 100–101), Vattioni (1966, 45–46; 1976, 550–555), Levi della Vida (1967, 263), Krahmalkov (1973, 61–64), Polselli (1976, 237–238) and Elmayer (1983, 90–91).

A suggested translation is as follows:

‘Flavius Dasama and his son Macrinus, the chief (or: commander) of the district, have made (this) centenarium to guard and protect the whole zone’.

Type
Short Articles and Notes
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 15 , 1984 , pp. 149 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1984

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