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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886v. Fragment

Description: Stele of brown limestone, w: 0.33 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.33)
Text: Inscribed on the face, which has been hacked and damaged.
Letters: Very irregular and badly formed; 0.015-0.025

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

Interpretive

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[---]KAYSNIS mu[.]
[---]BEATINOM
[---]EKYC[c. 4]
[---]DUC ( vac. 5)

Diplomatic

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[---]KAYSNISMU[·]
[---]BEATINOM
[---]EKYC[····]
[---]DUC          

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

(Not usefully translatable)

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1954 19, whence Elmayer, 1997, 50, this edition Kerr, 2010, 182 (where see bibliography).

Images

None available (2021).