Description:
Block (w:
0.77 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.26)
of friable grey limestone; broken at the left end.
Text: Inscribed in a square central panel (die, w:
0.26 x h:
0.28),
which is flanked in crude counter-relief, on the right by a lion, on the left by an eagle. line 8 is cut below the die.
Letters: Local fourth to fifth century CE capitals: line 1-7, 0.03; line8, 0.02.
Date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Found fallen from the doorway of the gasr adjoining the church buildings excavated by Caputo at
Al Khadra, near Sidi Ali ben Zaid,
South of the Tarhuna-Cussabat road near the East bank of the Wadi el-Fergian (map ref. M 095176).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Lines 1-5) The tower-house is the property of Marcus Caecilius Bumapal [---]
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1983
A centenarium which Thiana Marcius Cecilius has made with a marble plaque and a small altar was built. He lived in grace
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
A centenarium which Thiana Marcius Cecilius has made with the manufacture of a marble plaque and a small altar was built. He lived in grace
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
(Lines 1-4) Centenarium which Thiana Marcius Caecili(us) . . . made? . . .
Commentary
Bumupal: PLRE I, Bumupal
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1949, 33, whence AE, 1950.209; described Guey, 1950 9, whence AE 1951, page 25; IRT, 1952, 877 (without transcription), IRT, 2009, 877, whence EDH 022063; described Goodchild, 1951 b.7, whence mentioned AE 1954.181; Published Elmayer, 1983 87-88, whence AE 1983.948, Elmayer, 1997, 27, this edition Kerr, 2010, 189-190 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XVIII.32)
Fig. 2. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 213)