Description: Parts of two balustrade blocks (h:
0.24)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late second to early third century CE capitals: 0.055.
Date: Late second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin:
Gasr Tininai (map ref. Q 8500), Both presumably from the temple, a) seems now to be lost
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
b) is now at Beni Ulid.
b.1: The letters IO, illustrated by Petrignani, are now lost.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(b followed by a) Titus Flavius Capito Io[- . . . ] of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [built] the temple at his own expense [ . . .
Bibliography: Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1904 21, whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22666; Petrignani, 1928 illustration opposite p. 17; IRT, 1952, 888, whence IRT, 2009, 888, whence EDH 059733; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.IV.30)