Description:
Block of pink limestone (w:
0.74 x h:
0 .33 x d:
0.12 cut away at the bottom left-hand corner),
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular late capitals, with S reversed throughout: 0.05-0.07.
Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Western Jabal:
Seen by Bartocinni and Goodchild built into the outside wall of a small mosque in the village of El-Msufiin,
South of Garian (map ref. Q 300780).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Cross) To her good memory. Macrine lived approximately seventy-five years; she went to rest on the first day of the month of March in the third indiction.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 864, whence IRT, 2009, 864, whence EDH 059713; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR