877a. Fragmentary Libyan text
- Description:
- Block of soft brown limestone (w: 0.80 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.50), part of a window frame, carved on one of the narrow faces with a rinceau.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one of the adjacent broad faces; the inscribed face is roughly dressed, more carefully smoothed on the part inscribed, and cannot have been visible when the block was in position.
- Letters:
- Roughly incised lettering, which includes local fourth to fifth century A.D. forms: 0.03-0.04.
- Date:
- Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: From the church excavated by Caputo at Al Khadra, near Sidi Ali ben Zaid, South of the Tarhuna-Cussabat road near the East bank of the Wadi el-Fergian(map ref. M 095176).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Caputo, Bullettino del Museo dell'Impero Romano (supplement to Bull. Comm. Arch.), XIII:152. 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)
(Not transcribed, see image.)
(Not transcribed, see image.)
<note>
Not transcribed, see image.
</note>
Translation:
Not usefully translatable
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.IX.21)
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- Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 213)
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