Description:
Cipollino column split and re-used as an balustrade.
(w:
1.50 x h:
0.57), and inscribed longitudinally.
Text: Inscribed longitudinally.
Letters: Lettering (uncials): 0.08-0.095. The crux is a compass-traced Greek cross in a double circle
Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
The Forte della Vite. Found during demolition.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Holy (cross) God.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1919, 33-34, no. 3; IRT, 1952, 254, whence IRT, 2009, 254, whence EDH 059224; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 154)