Description:
Keystone (top, w:
0.46, and bottom, w:
0.22 x h:
0.45 x d:
0.21) of brown limestone, with a central, projecting boss (diam., 0.19).
Text: Inscribed a in relief beneath the boss, b and c incised, b within and c around the boss.
Letters: Capitals, in part incised, and in part in counter-relief (as 884): 0.025-0.045.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
From Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech, map ref. Q 595755)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
Flavianus son of Numerian Sihhan has built (this stele) in this new position which he made.
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
(a): Merian lived 5 years; (b): relocated by (?) Mu.elyn; (c): ???
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 865, without transcription, whence Elmayer, 1997, 22, IRT, 2009, 865, whence EDH 059714; this edition Kerr, 2010, 183 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 672 Leica)
Fig. 2. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 210)