993. Fragment from sculptured relief
- Description:
- Limestone block from the sculpted relief of Mausoleum C in the group nearest the habitations at Ghirza (see also 898, 902, from the same mausoleum): the relief shows men at work in the fields, ploughing with camels and oxen.
- Text:
- Inscribed above the relief, on an outward-curving flange, damaged at the right-hand end.
- Letters:
- Very irregular incised capitals: 0.02-0.07.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Wadi Zemzem: Ghirza: found fallen from its position.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.21.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
ma
<unclear
reason=""
>
c
</unclear>
hi
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
k
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
aii
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
aθnc
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
MA: ligatured:
C : could be read as : G
K : may be: Y
Translation:
(Translation not yet available.)
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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