Fragmentary <rs type="textType">christian</rs> inscriptionsJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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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
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 (1.41), found in situ over doorway V.
2. Three fragments of a lintel (3.00)
3. Left half of a lintel (1.12, width incomplete)
4. Left half of a lintel (0.70, width incomplete)
5. Wall-panel (0.60)
6. Wall-panel (0.60)
7. Wall-panel (2.00)
8. Fragment (0.75; width incomplete; left-hand margin only)
9. Fragment (0.44; left-hand margin only)
10. Fragment (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)
Description of 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.
Description of 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
Locations
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.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
a) Recorded by Rothman in 1773: , VIII:10969
Text constituted from
Previous publications and transcriptions (Bartoccini, Goodchild, Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
a. 1. The justice of the Lord God; 2. felicity; 3. of the
Lord God;
4. of the Lord God;
5. ?good thingsof 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 thisAlpha 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 .