255. Acclamation
- Description:
- Cipollino column (diam. w: 0.52 x ).
- Text:
- Inscribed while upside-down, within a roughly oval frame.
- Letters:
- Rough late capitals: 0.025-0.04. For the unusual form of G (J) see also 876 and 261 (39).
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: Near the Bab el-G'edid, Tripoli. Found re-used as a door-sill.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, II:334-6, figs 20-1; Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXXIV-V:35-36, no. 4, Pl II, 4. 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Maria
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
Angelus
<lb
n="3"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
Gabriel
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
</ab>
Translation:
Maria (cross), (cross) Angel (cross) Gabriel (cross)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 156)
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