894a. Fragmentary Christian ?building inscription
- Description:
- Monolithic archivolt (w: 1.37 x h: 0.82), the arch outlined with a cable moulding and a rosette in each of the spandrels.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the flat surface above the head of the arch.
- Letters:
- Capitals, including late forms: ll. 1-3, 0.07; l. 4, 0.05.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Gasr Giasia; seen and recorded by De Lisle in 1949, loose beside the well outside (east) in the Wadi Mimum Darragh, 10 km. East of Bir Dufan (map ref. R 8901).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1949)
- 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 (De Lisle)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Lauratianus
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
fundament
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
instituerunt
<lb
n="3"
/>
<orig
>
ionpleante
</orig>
filibus
nepotibus
que
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
to
fortun
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
adauget
fabente
Deo
3, So read by De Lisle; perhaps conpleante (sic) for complentibus.
Translation:
Lauratianus[ and·· ? ··] established the foundations with his sons and grandsons [·· ? ··] ?fortune (case unknown) [·· ? ··] increases with God favouring (?us).
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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