Strangers in Africa

How tough it is to separate Suavic from Germanic names in practice (since most of the former, oddly, seem to be encompassed by experts within the latter), you can see from the following (Anthologia latina) funerary epitaph about the passage of the infant Damira, the daughter of [O]aegis[l]:

The inscription itself comes from Africa and yet Damir is a Suavic name. On the little that is known of Vandalic see here. For another strangely Slavic name from Dacia, see here.

Damira may well be Suavic but also may be Turkic or Hebrew (‘long live the world’! That is itself crazy because it would suggest Suavic – Hebrew connections) – also recall the Venetian opera Damira Placata). Strangely, in Egypt there is a town called Damira (which had a Jewish community) in the Nile delta just southwest of a town called Shirbin (or Sherbin) (Serbin?).

Oageis’ is itself a strange name but seems more Germanic than Slavic. Oageis[l]?  Compare this with the flipped letters in Geisa-.

Was her mother Suavic?

This is from Albrecht Greule (that Oageis was a “Vandal” is, of course, just an assumption):

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October 26, 2018

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