Description:
Cipollino
column
(diam. w:
0.52).
Text: Inscribed while upside-down, within a roughly oval frame.
Letters: Rough late capitals: 0.025-0.04. For the unusual form of G (J) see also 876 and 261 (39).
Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
Near the Bab el-G'edid, Tripoli. Found re-used as a door-siline
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Maria (cross), (cross) Angel (cross) Gabriel (cross)
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1916, 334-6, figs 20-1; Romanelli, 1919, 35-36, no. 4, Pl II, 4; IRT, 1952, 255, whence IRT, 2009, 255, whence EDH 059225; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 156)