253. Fragmentary Greek inscription
- Description:
- The right-hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.125 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.03)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lettering: 0.037.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: Near the sea-shore at Sciara Sciatt, a suburb of Tripoli, about 2 km. E of the Castle. Found in 1939.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
κ
</unclear>
ως
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Ζωΐλος
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
τη
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
μ
</orig>
<num
value="15"
>
ιε
</num>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.2), Zoilos [·· ? ·· ?lived] 15 [?years] (or 15 months or days.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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