901. Libyan text
- Description:
- Not recorded.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- All instances of the letter A are missing the crossbar.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Wadi Zemzem: Ghirza (map ref. W 7052). Seen and described by Denham and Clapperton in 1824near 900, 902; later removed to Istanbul.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now inaccessible in the vaults of the Cinili Kösk, Istanbul.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:10971=10991; =III:744. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
M
</orig>
<orig
>
MEM
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</orig>
O
</supplied>
<orig
>
RIA
</orig>
<orig
>
MV
</orig>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
>
FELATHVAL
</orig>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<orig
>
ATH
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
BVCHN
</orig>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<orig
>
ASIFMVFELA
</orig>
<orig
>
INSERT
</orig>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<orig
>
LVRVTHIABILINEMA
</orig>
For a variant reading, with facsimile, see CIL III, 744.
Translation:
?In memory of ?Mufelath
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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