889. Libyan text
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.90 x h: 0.54) of limestone
- Text:
- Inscribed within a narrow border; below the text, two victories uphold a wreath containing a small rosette; to the left, a four-lobed plait; below the right-hand victory, a bird.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Shemech (map ref. R 1402): Seen and photographed in position over the door of an unidentified gasr nearby, described by Petrignani as << Gasr Uadi el Bir presso Scemek >>. Subsequently removed to the Fort at Shemech.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Petrignani, Il Sahara Tripolitano (Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) Roma, 1928, 80; Goodchlld, Antiquaries Journal, XXX:137 ff. And pl. XVI a. 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)
(Not transcribed, see image.)
(Not transcribed, see image.)
<note>
Not transcribed, see image.
</note>
line 2, perhaps for fecit centenarium
Translation:
?Flavius Dasamaus, son of Macrinus, built the tower [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.I.29)
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- Sketch after a photograph (from IRT p. 219)
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