Description:
A number of blocks and fragments of blocks: (all originally 0.530.42-48, varying width). a) Fragments of 7 blocks. Fragments 6 and 7 are wrongly conflated as a single text by CIL, followed by Diehl, Inscr. lat. christ. vet. 2468 (erroneously attributed to Rumia). Not seen. b) Fragments of 16 lintels and wall-panels. To these must be added a lintel fragment, containing the central part of text 2, seen and photographed by Bartoccini c.1925, re-used as part of a column in an unidentified mosque near Msufiin. 1. Complete lintel (w: 1.41 x ), found in situ over doorway V. 2. Three fragments of a lintel (w: 3.00 x ) 3. Left half of a lintel (w: 1.12 x , width incomplete) 4. Left half of a lintel (w: 0.70 x , width incomplete) 5. Wall-panel (w: 0.60 x ) 6. Wall-panel (w: 0.60 x ) 7. Wall-panel (w: 2.00 x ) 8. Fragment (0.75; width incomplete; left-hand margin only) 9. Fragment (0.44; left-hand margin only) 10. Fragment (h: 0.45, width incomplete; left-hand margin only) 11. Fragment (0.68, width incomplete; left-hand margin only) 12. Fragment (0.23, width incomplete; left-hand margin only) 13. Fragment (1.10, width incomplete; right-hand margin only) 14. Fragment (0.80, width incomplete; right-hand margin only) 15. Fragment (0.40, width incomplete; right-hand margin only) 16. Fragment (0.32, width incomplete; neither lateral margin surviving) 
Text:
These blocks belong to a series of inscriptions, all of similar form and content, which appear to have formed a continuous course along the outer face or faces of the building. Some of the blocks served also as lintels of doorways, and in these the text is interrupted by a central Chi-rho monogram. 
Letters:
Well cut lapidary capitals: 0.095-0.10. The text is cut in three lines within a frame of continuous horizontal incised lines (double between ll.1 and 2, and ll.2 and 3), with vertical lines marking the left and right-hand margins of the individual panels. There is a fourth line, below the frame, on some blocks; on the lintels this part of the stone is cut away. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Western Djebel: From Henscir Taglissi, a ditched ruin on the right bank of the Wadi en-Nzasat, , 500 m. South West of the village of el-Msufiin (map ref. Q 297777).a) Recorded by Rothmann in 1773, four of them then still apparently in situ. With the possible exception of fragments 5 and 7, these are now lost. b) found by Goodchild in 1949 on the surface and in the course of partial excavation. b.2: The central fragment photographed by Bartocini in 1925, the other two found in 1949. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
a) Recorded by Rothman in 1773: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:10969 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:
Previous publications and transcriptions (Bartoccini, Goodchild, Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a1
Dei domi-
ni iusti-
tia
2
[·· ? ··]SVN
[·· ? ··]litas
[·· ? ··fe]licitas
3
[·· ? ··do]mini
[·· ? ··]tati
4
[·· ? ··] dom[in·· ? ··]
5
[·· ? ··]BONA[·· ? ··]
6
[·· ? ··d]o[mi]ni
[·· ? ··]tas
[·· ? ··]CA
7
[·· ? ··la]udes [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
b1i
Dei domini monogram omnipo-
tentis et monogram eius pieta-
s et miseri monogramcordia
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
2i
[L]audes [do]mino om monogram[nipote]nti Deo et chi-rho ei
[us cuiu[s] aspiration monogram [e et prae]stantia Ae-
[mil]ian[u]s disposuit monogram i[nstitui]t et perfecit
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
3i
Dei domini monogram [omnipotentis]
oppulentia monogram [·· ? ··]
abundantia monogram [·· ? ··]
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
4
[Om]nipoten[ti ·· ? ··]
[·]ETO inmort[alitas ·· ? ··]
ISAVARIORVM[·· ? ··]
PE
5
Domini
prospe-
ritas
6
De[i d]omin-
[i···]TAPR
[·· ? ··]O
bona
7
Domini omnipotentis ho-
norificentia prudentia s
c̣[ientia rec]ordatio
8
[Do]mini o[mnipotentis ·· ? ·· in]-
uictissim[i ·· ? ··]-
itas iust[itia ·· ? ··]
9
Dei dom[ini ·· ? ··]
kar[itas ·· ? ··]
[---]
10
Dom[ini ·· ? ··]
PO[·· ? ··]
[---]
11
Dei [·· ? ··]
[---]
3[---]
12
D[·· ? ··]
R[·· ? ··]
D[·· ? ··]
13
[·· ? ··o]mnipoten-
[·· ? ··]VITAEFIDI
[·· ? ··au]ctoritas ex
[·· ? ··]TIO
14
[·· ? ·· omnipote]nti[···]
[·· ? ··]OAPATR[···]
[·· ? ··] humanitas
15
[·· ? ··]STA
[·· ? ··]NOS
[·· ? ··]T palm
16
[·· ? ··do]mini o[mnipotentis]
[·· ? ··]VMB[·· ? ··]
[---]
a1
DEIDOMI
NIIVSTI
TIA
2
[·· ? ··]SVN
[·· ? ··]LITAS
[·· ? ·····]LICITAS
3
[·· ? ·····]MINI
[·· ? ··]TATI
4
[·· ? ··]DOM[····· ? ··]
5
[·· ? ··]BONA[·· ? ··]
6
[·· ? ····]O[···]NI
[·· ? ··]TAS
[·· ? ··]CA
7
[·· ? ·····]VDES[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
b1i
DEIDOMINIMONOGRAMOMNIPO
TENTISETMONOGRAMEIVSPIETA
SETMISERIMONOGRAMCORDIA
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
2i
[··]AVDES[···]MINOOMMONOGRAM[·······]NTIDEOET chi-rho EI
[···CVIV[··]ASPIRATIONMONOGRAM[··········]STANTIAAE
[····]IAN[··]SDISPOSVITMONOGRAMI[········]TETPERFECIT
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
3i
DEIDOMINIMONOGRAM[·············]
OPPVLENTIAMONOGRAM[·· ? ··]
ABVNDANTIAMONOGRAM[·· ? ··]
ii
Α chi-rho Ω
4
[···]NIPOTEN[····· ? ··]
[·]ETOINMORT[········· ? ··]
ISAVARIORVM[·· ? ··]
PE
5
DOMINI
PROSPE
RITAS
6
DE[····]OMIN
[·····]TAPR
[·· ? ··]O
BONA
7
DOMINIOMNIPOTENTISHO
NORIFICENTIAPRVDENTIAS
·[···········]ORDATIO
8
[···]MINIO[·············· ? ·····]
VICTISSIM[···· ? ··]
ITASIVST[······· ? ··]
9
DEIDOM[······ ? ··]
KAR[······· ? ··]
[---]
10
DOM[······ ? ··]
PO[·· ? ··]
[---]
11
DEI[·· ? ··]
[---]
3[---]
12
D[·· ? ··]
R[·· ? ··]
D[·· ? ··]
13
[·· ? ····]MNIPOTEN
[·· ? ··]VITAEFIDI
[·· ? ·····]CTORITASEX
[·· ? ··]TIO
14
[·· ? ···········]NTI[···]
[·· ? ··]OAPATR[···]
[·· ? ··]HVMANITAS
15
[·· ? ··]STA
[·· ? ··]NOS
[·· ? ··]T palm
16
[·· ? ·····]MINIO[············]
[·· ? ··]VMB[·· ? ··]
[---]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<div type="textpart" n="1" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dei
domi
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ni
iusti
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
tia
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="2" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
sun
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
litas
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
fe
</supplied>
licitas
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="3" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
do
</supplied>
mini
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tati
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="4" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dom
<supplied reason="lost" >
in
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="5" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
bona
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="6" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
o
<supplied reason="lost" >
mi
</supplied>
ni
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tas
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ca
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="7" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
la
</supplied>
udes
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<div type="textpart" n="1" >
<div type="textpart" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dei
domini
monogram
omnipo
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
tentis
et
monogram
eius
pieta
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
s
et
miseri
monogram
cordia
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
Ω
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="2" >
<div type="textpart" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
L
</supplied>
audes
<supplied reason="lost" >
do
</supplied>
mino
om
monogram
<supplied reason="lost" >
nipote
</supplied>
nti
Deo
et
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
ei
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
us
</supplied>
cuiu
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
aspiration
monogram
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
et
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
prae
</supplied>
stantia
Ae
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
mil
</supplied>
ian
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
s
disposuit
monogram
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
nstitui
</supplied>
t
et
perfecit
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
Ω
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="3" >
<div type="textpart" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dei
domini
monogram
<supplied reason="lost" >
omnipotentis
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
oppulentia
monogram
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
abundantia
monogram
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
Ω
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="4" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Om
</supplied>
nipoten
<supplied reason="lost" >
ti
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
eto
</orig>
inmort
<supplied reason="lost" >
alitas
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<orig >
isauariorum
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="29" />
<orig >
pe
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="5" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Domini
<lb n="2" />
prospe
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ritas
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="6" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
De
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
omin
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig >
tapr
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
o
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
bona
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="7" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Domini
omnipotentis
ho
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
norificentia
prudentia
s
<lb n="3" />
<unclear reason="" >
c
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ientia
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
rec
</supplied>
ordatio
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="8" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Do
</supplied>
mini
o
<supplied reason="lost" >
mnipotentis
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
in
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
uictissim
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
itas
iust
<supplied reason="lost" >
itia
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="9" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dei
dom
<supplied reason="lost" >
ini
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
kar
<supplied reason="lost" >
itas
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="10" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dom
<supplied reason="lost" >
ini
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
po
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="11" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dei
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="12" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
d
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
r
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<orig >
d
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="13" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
mnipoten
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
uitaefidi
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
au
</supplied>
ctoritas
ex
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
tio
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="14" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
omnipote
</supplied>
nti
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
oapatr
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
humanitas
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="15" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
sta
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
nos
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
t
</orig>
<g type="palm" > </g>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="16" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
do
</supplied>
mini
o
<supplied reason="lost" >
mnipotentis
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
umb
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. 1. The justice of the Lord God; 2. [·· ? ··]felicity; 3. [·· ? ··] of the Lord [God ·· ? ··]; 4. [·· ? ··]of the Lord [God ·· ? ··]; 5. [·· ? ··]?good things[·· ? ··]of the Lord [God] [·· ? ··]

b. 1. Of the omnipotent Lord God and his ?justice and mercy. (Alpha and Omega on either side of a chi-rho monogram); 2. Praises to the omnipotent Lord God and his Christ, by whose ?breath and excellence Aemilianus organised, constructed and completed (this) (Alpha and Omega on either side of a chi-rho monogram); 3. Of the Lord God the omnipotent the wealth [·· ? ··], the riches [·· ? ··] (Alpha and Omega on either side of a monogram cross); 4. [To] the omnipotent God [·· ? ··] immortality (case unknown); 5. of the prosperity of the Lord; 6. [Of] the Lord God [·· ? ··] good things; 7. Of the omnipotent Lord, the honour, the prudence, the knowledge, the remembrance. 8. Of the [omnipotent] Lord [·· ? ··] wholly unconquered [the ·· ? ··], the justice[·· ? ··]; 9. Of the Lord God [·· ? ··] the love [·· ? ··]; 10. Of the Lord [God ·· ? ··]; 11. Of God [·· ? ··]; 12. (Not usefully translatable.) 13. [·· ? ··] omnipotent (probably genitive) [·· ? ··] authority from [·· ? ··]; 14.[·· ? ··] ?of the omnipotent [God ·· ? ··] the humanity; 15. (Not usefully translatable.) 16. [·· ? ··] of the [omnipotent] Lord [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

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