Description: Two inscribed fragments, both probably from the same inscription.
a) w:
0.56 x h:
0.60, lower edge, with mouldings below
b) w:
0.45 x h:
0.40, no edges surviving
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.12.
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Jabal Nafusah:
Seen in 1915 by Romanelli and later by Bartoccini
at Ain el-Auenia near Jefren (map ref. U 785720).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Later removed to Jefren, and subsequently lost.
3: IV
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a, line 2) [---] ?to Junius [---]
(b. ll 2-3) [---] ?portico [---] ?nine( or four) [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1922, 111; IRT, 1952, 857, whence IRT, 2009, 857, whence EDH 059707; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. From lrft: Unidentified; 857 a and b: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 862)