Description: Rectangular stele of brown limestone (w:
0.35 x h:
1.55 x d:
0.35)
Text: Inscribed on the face, between guidelines.
Letters: 0.035-0.045).
Date: Fourth-early fifth centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin:
Bir ed-Dreder: Surveyed in situ, in the Libyan cemetery, by Goodchild in 1949.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
?Of Flavius Saicham, son of Macarcum [ . . . ?
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1984
Flavius Saicham son of Macharcum, Sonmon, Tribunus, son of the prince, stele (which) Machrus erected
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
Flavius Saicham son of Macarcum, (scil. the) zonmon, (scil. the) tribune, at the behest of Yriraban, Machruz erected (scil. this stele)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 886.a (without transcription), whence IRT, 2009, 886.a ; Goodchild, 1950a 138 ff. and pl. XVI b. h), whence AE 1951.11a; Goodchild, 1954 1, whence Elmayer, 1984 93-4, whence EDH 020944, Elmayer, 1997, 32; this edition Kerr, 2010, 170 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 218)