Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.53 x h:
1.08 x d:
0.48) of compact grey limestone with
moulded panels on front and sides; left, a raven on a tripod, right, a lyre
and plectrum.
Text: Inscribed panel on front heavily and apparently deliberately damaged, but still legible (die,
w:
0.33 x h:
0.50). Three lines of Neo-Punic, in part erased
and no longer legible, follow the Latin text. Uniform with 246.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.03.
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
Found walled into the Chapel of Sidi Chlifa el-Bulaghi, beside the Lighthouse Fort, Tripoli
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now in front of Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
i. Sacred to Apollo. Aurellius son of Epagrus gave this at his own expense.
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
ii. Abdmelqart, the son of Muthunbal.
Commentary
Line 3-4: Aurellius Epagri filius. See also in 246.
Discussion of Neo-Punic text: Adams (2003), 215-216; Jongeling (2008), Tripoli N2; Wilson (2012), 301-302.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1916, 383 ff, figs. 2- 4; , whence AE, 1919.97; IRT, 1952, 229, whence IRT, 2009, 229, whence EDH 026850. With the Neo=Punic text Levi Della Vida, 1927 97; Levi Della Vida, 1987 5b, whence Jongeling, 2008 Tripoli N2; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Left panel: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 134)
Fig. 2. Right panel: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.III.14)
Fig. 3. Front view:Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. D. 853)
Fig. 4. Front face: Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VIII.8)
Fig. 5. Front face: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.III.15)