865. Libyan inscription
- Description:
- Keystone (top, w: 0.46 x , and bottom, w: 0.22 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.21) of brown limestone, with a central, projecting boss (diam., 0.19).
- Text:
- Inscribed within and around the boss.
- Letters:
- Capitals, in part incised, and in part in counter-relief (as 884): 0.025-0.045.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: From Bir el-Uaar(Ulàd Brech map ref. Q 595755);
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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>
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable, although the final word might perhaps be Numerianus.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 672 Leica)
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- Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 210)
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