Description: Fragmentary sandstone
block
(surviving, w:
0.82 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.35), formerly stuccoed
and now badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face with part of a monumental
inscription.
Letters: Lapidary capitals, probably first century: 0.21.
Date: Probably first century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
The Spanish Fort: found in 1914-1915 during demolition of the fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] proconsul (governor) [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1916, 329, fig. 17; Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, 5; IRT, 1952, 234, whence IRT, 2009, 234, whence EDH 059206; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVIII.27)