Description: Two blocks from a Doric balustrade (w:
2.15 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.27, complete; and
w:
1.05 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.27, left end broken).
The frontage of the mausoleum measures w:
7.04, and these are probably the first and part of the last of three blocks forming the inscription.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century CE capitals: 0.07.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Wadi Nfed:
Gasr el-Banat, (called Lachadié by De Mathuisieulx map ref. R 8906), lying in front of a well-preserved mausoleum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Unknown
1: Written NAZ MVRI.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Aurellius Nazmur their father and [ . . . their] mother, the Aurellii Maior and Magnus and Arcadius, sons, [ . . . ] had this made for their most dutiful [parents].
Bibliography: Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1904 28, whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22665; Bauer, 1935, 73, figs. 24-5. ; IRT, 1952, 891, whence IRT, 2009, 891, whence EDH 059735; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR