878a. Fragmentary Christian Libyan text
- Description:
- Lintel (width incomplete w: 1.70 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.60) of grey limestone, re-used as the upright of an olive-press; two slots have been cut in the inscribed face and the right-hand end is missing.
- Text:
- Inscribed in two lines, each line within a re-cessed panel (w: 1.20 x h: 0.10), with simple, incised, linear ornament between the two panels and right-hand one of which is missing ; in the right-hand one of which is missing; in the left-hand ansa Α tau-rho Ω
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: Umm el-Msareb; Seen by Romanelli in 1915, and rediscovered and copied by Oates in 1949, in the ruins of olive-presses, South West of Ghlil (map ref. M 178278).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1949)
- Bibliography:
- Romanelli, , XXIV-V: 29 (text not given). 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 (Oates)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="8"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
>
icomachi
</orig>
<orig
>
sn
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
extentmax="3"
/>
<orig
>
stris
</orig>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
>
iebasclumeinstituente
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
extentmax="6"
/>
1, icomachi: Perhaps [N]icomachi.
2, The last legible letter is possibly a B.
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable, but perhaps l.1 contained the name Nicomachus.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 594-6(?))
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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