Description:
Block of yellow limestone (w:
0.70 x h:
0.31 x d:
0.14), the right-hand edge of which appears to have been incorporated in a later building.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals: 0.025.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
From Ain Wif (map ref. Q 643965 see 868), from the ruins of a bath-house beside the spring.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Unknown
2: -ninus Or Ninus; but the ivy leaf at the beginning of the line is probably decorative rather than a stop.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Marcus Coelius [---]ninus( or Ninus) [---] saw to the restoration of the bath, which was in bad condition as a result of its age. He also built the sweating-chamber from its foundations and instituted an exercise-room. Junius Successus, centurion of the principes, was in charge (scil. of the work).
Bibliography: Goodchild and Ward-Perkins, 1949, 86-8, pi. XI, 2, whence AE, 1950.127; IRT, 1952, 869, whence IRT, 2009, 869, whence EDH 021841; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 402)