995. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of marble milestone(w: 0.06 x h: 0.09 x d: 0.045).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, which is waterworn.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.015.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Wadi Zemzem: Ghirza; Found by Mrs. Olwen Brogan in 1954 in the bed of the Wadi , near the habitations.
- 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.23.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
vam
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
v
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
c
</unclear>
c
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ev
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
This fragment from the Ghirza settlement is the only known monument found in the pre-desert area of Tripolitania which is not of local stone; and its significance lies in this fact. At least one settlement in this area was in close touch with the coast, sufficiently wealthy to afford to import a luxury therefrom, and sufficiently sophisticated to do so.
- Photographs:
- none.
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