Description:
Marble
panel (w:
0.26 x h:
0.14 x d:
0.55).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.02-0.03.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
From an unidentified site in the area of Cussabat (map ref. M 2931)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
Adomynim husband of Bodsychun Challia lived years
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
?Man . . . Bidysychun Chalia lived years.
Commentary
Line 3 is complete: perhaps a numeral was painted?
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 879, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 879, whence EDH 059726; Bartoccini, 1923, no. 37, whence Elmayer, 1997, 30, Kerr, 2010, 210 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 696 Leica)
Fig. 2. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 214)