Fragmentary <rs type="textType">Christian</rs> <rs type="textType">Libyan</rs> textJ. 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
Lintel (width incomplete 1.700.430.60) 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.
Description of Text
Inscribed in two lines, each line within a re-cessed panel (1.200.10),
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 Ω
Description of Letters
Capitals: 0.07.
Date
No indication
Locations
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).
Unknown
Findspot (1949)
Bibliography
Romanelli, ,
XXIV-V: 29 (text not given).
Text constituted from
Transcription (Oates)
Text
icomachisnstrisiebasclumeinstituenter
Apparatus
icomachi Perhaps Nicomachi.
The last legible letter is possibly a B.
Translation
Not usefully translatable, but perhaps l.1 contained the name Nicomachus.