902. Title for an image of Isicuar
- Description:
- Block from the angle of the sculptured frieze of a mausoleum (w: 0.18 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.265, right-hand edge broken). On the front a standing male figure facing to the right; on the left face a mounted horseman galloping to the right, spear in hand, and below the horse a hound and a stag; inscribed on the front above the figure.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front above the figure
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Wadi Zemzem: (presumably; cf. 900, 901) Ghirza (map ref. W 7052). Origin not specifically recorded, but belongs certainly to a group of sculpture and inscriptions seen by Denham and Clapperton in 1824 and removed prior to 1868 to Istanbul; see also 900, 901.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now inaccessible in the vaults of the Cinili Kösk, Istanbul.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:10972 = III:745, illustrated and described in G. Mendel, Catalogue des sculptures grecques, romaines et byzantines des Musées Impériaux Ottomans, Constantinople, 1914, II:68-9. 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Isicua
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
r
</supplied>
Translation:
Isicuar
Commentary:
For this name see also 867, ll. 1-2, and 886(h), l. 2, and (k); the final R, read by Dumont and others, has since been damaged.
- Photographs:
- none.
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