Description:
Block (w:
0.72 x h:
0.29 x d:
0.29, width incomplete) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a roughly incised tabella ansata.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.06-0.07.
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Seen by Bartoccini among the ruins of a small mausoleum, immediately West of the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below of Calpurnia [---] she lived seven (or seventeen or seventy-plus) years [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 866, whence IRT, 2009, 866, whence EDH 059715; Elmayer, 198386-87, whence AE 1983.948; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 686 Leica)