Description: Fragment from the upper right-hand corner of a rectangular base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.50) of limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face, within a moulded panel, in Latin and Neo-Punic
(Neo-Punic 7. The text is fragmentary, and reads:
Abdmel[qart ...]).
Uniform with 229.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.035.
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
The Lighthouse Fort,; found during the demolition of the fort (1915).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
i. [--- Aurellius, son] of Epagrus, gave (scil. this) [from his own] finances.
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
ii. Abdmel[qart ...])
Commentary
The dedicator also in 229
Discussion of Neo-Punic text: Adams (2003), 215-216; Cooley (2012), 261.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1916, 39l ff., fig 8; Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, 4; IRT, 1952, 246, whence IRT, 2009, 246, whence EDH 059216. With the Neo-Punic text Levi Della Vida, 1927 97; Levi Della Vida, 1987 5a, whence Jongeling, 2008 Tripoli N1; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 675 Leica)