Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T04:50:10.389Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Three funerary inscriptions from Roman Tripolitania and observations on tombs in the Jefara plain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2020

Abdulhafid F. Elmayer
Abdulhafid F. Elmayer*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts, University of Al-Fateh, Tripoli PO Box 13275. Tripoli, Libya
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This article provides the edition and commentary of two Punic and one Latin funerary inscription of Roman imperial date from inland areas of Tripolitania. The first two texts were discovered at Al-Brahama village in the vicinity of Al-Rujban in the Western Jebel district of Libya. The first is neo-Punic, the second is Latin. The neo-Punic inscription consists of seven lines, of which the first four lines are legible and their translation is unproblematic. However, the rest are illegible as a result of damage to the stone. The Latin inscription consists of four lines that are easy to read and translate. Finally a reinterpretation of an already published text (HNPI Tarhuna N1) from the area between Tarhuna and Garyan is presented, and some observations on tombs in the Jefara plain.

ترجمة الملخص :

نقيشتان جنائزيتان عثر عليهما فى قرية البراهمة فى منطقة الجبل الغربى فى طرابلس الرومانية و تعودان الى العصر الرومانى وأحدهما بونى متأخر و الآخر لاتينى :

النقش البونى المتاخر : يتكون من سبعة أسطر والأربعة الأولى يمكن قراتها وترجمتها بسهولة. أما الأسطر الثلاثة الباقية يصعب قراءتها بسبب ما لحق بحجر النقيشة من أضرار .

النقيشة الجنائزية اللاتنية : وهى تتكون من أربعة أسطر ولاتوجد صعوبة فى قراءتها ا وترجمتها .

الصور الواردة فى هذا المقال هى لمقابر فينيقية- بونية تحت الأرض جرى تدميرها من قبل نابشى القبور الباحثين عن الذهب .

النقيشة الثالثة : وهى نقيشة بونية متأخرة جنائزية إكتشفت فى منطقة ترهونة وهى تحمل اسم المتوفاة سوفبيت وهو اسم ليبى لازال يطلق على نصب قديم فى منطقة ترهونة أقامه أحدهم ويدعى كوينتوس .

Type
Part 1: Research Papers
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 51 , November 2020 , pp. 24 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Libyan Studies 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Amadasi Guzzo, M.G. 1992. Varia Phoenicia. Rivista di Studi Fenici 20: 95–104.Google Scholar
Garbini, G., 1983. Nuovi documenti di epigrafia punica. Epigraphica 45: 102–107.Google Scholar
Garbini, G. 1986. Venti anni di epigrafia punica nel Magreb (1965–1985). Supplemento della Rivista di Studi Fenici. 15: 1–90.Google Scholar
Garbini, G. 1992. Nota sulla neopunica di Tarhuna. Rivista di Studi Fenici 20: 105–106.Google Scholar
Garbini, G. 2006. Introduzione all'epigrafia semitica (Studi sul Vicino Oriente antico 4). Paideia, Brescia.Google Scholar
Jongeling, K. 2008. Handbook of Neo-Punic Inscriptions. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.Google Scholar
Jongeling, K and Kerr, R. M. 2005. Late Punic Epigraphy. An Introduction to the Study of Neo-Punic and Latino-Punic Inscriptions. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.Google Scholar
Kerr, R.M. 2010. Latino-Punic Epigraphy. A Descriptive Study of the Inscriptions. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Le Bohec, Y. (ed.) 1994. L'Afrique, la Gaule, la religion à l’époque romaine: Mélanges à la mémoire de Marcel Le Glay (Collection Latomus 226). Peeters, Bruxelles.Google Scholar
Levi Della Vida, G. 1964. Le iscrizioni neopuniche di Wadi El-Amud. Libya Antiqua 1: 57–68.Google Scholar
Rossi, M. and Garbini, G. 1976–1977 [1983]. Nuovi documenti epigrafici dalla Tripolitania romana. Libya Antiqua 13–14: 19–20.Google Scholar
Sznycer, M. 1982 [1988]. Observations sur deux inscriptions néo-puniques de Tripolitaine récemment publiées. Bulletin archéologique du Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques n.s. 18: 195–197.Google Scholar
Sznycer, M. 1994. À propos de la stèle néopunique de Tarhuna en Tripolitaine romaine. In Bohec, Y. Le (ed.), L'Afrique, la Gaule, la religion à l’époque romaine: Mélanges à la mémoire de Marcel Le Glay (Collection Latomus 226). Peeters, Bruxelles: 27–33.Google Scholar