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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Block (0.770.320.26)
of friable grey limestone; broken at the left end.
Description of Text
Inscribed in a square central panel (die, 0.260.28),
which is flanked in crude counter-relief, on the right by a lion, on the left by an eagle. L. 8 is cut below the die.
Description of Letters
Local fourth to fifth century A.D. capitals: ll. 1-7, 0.03;
ll.8, 0.02.
Date
Fourth to fifth centuries A.D.
(lettering)
Locations
Eastern Djebel:
Found fallen from the doorway of the gasr adjoining the church excavated by Caputo at Al Khadra, near Sidi Ali ben Zaid, South of the Tarhuna-Cussabat road near the East bank of the Wadi el-Fergian (map ref. M 095176).
Unknown
Lepcis Museum.
Bibliography
, II:33;
, 1950:209.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
TextNot transcribed, see image.
Translation
Lines 1-5 The tower-house is the property of Marcus Caecilius Bumapal