WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0881. Libyan? text

Description: Left-hand part of a block of limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel, at the left-hand, surviving end of which is the same bow-shaped, moulded feature as on 880.
Letters: No description

Date: First-fourth centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Wādī Sawfajjīn: Upper Sofeggin Basin : Saniet Duib; In the gasr (see 880), re-used in the late walling of the corridor within the entrance doorway.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

(Text not read: it is overlaid with graffiti, but with time and patience parts of it are almost certainly legible.)

Diplomatic

(Text not read: it is overlaid with graffiti, but with time and patience parts of it are almost certainly legible.)

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Not usefully translatable.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 881, whence IRT, 2009, 881, whence EDH 059727; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXIII.28)