Description:
Stele (w:
0.28 x h:
0.64 x d:
0.19) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within an incised border (die, w:
0.23 x h:
0.19).
Letters: Rough capitals, not earlier than third century CE: 0.02-0.025.
Date: Not earlier than third century A.D (lettering)
Findspot:
Coastal Belt:
Stated locally to have come from Podere 203, Micca Village, near the Tripoli-Azizia road.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
At the Doctor's house, Bianchi village (map ref. L 193473).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below of Quintus Aemilius Fronto Massenagan ?his son.
Commentary
The names are all in the genitive, but there may be a mistake in the text, filius for filii, so that Fronto was the son of Massenagen.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 849, whence IRT, 2009, 849, whence EDH 059700; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR