905. Dedication to Mercurius
- Description:
- Limestone block (w: 0.57 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.45), inscribed on one face above a phallus in crude relief.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face above a phallus in crude relief.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Wadi Zemzem : Gasr Chanifes, Wadi Seetaf (map ref. W 6379), fallen from the door of a fortifled farmhouse on the East side of the Bir Tala - Ghirza track. Recorded in 1948 by Goodchild.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1948)
- 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 (Goodchild)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Mercuri
Translation:
Of Mercury
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 343)
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