Description:
Block of pinkish brown limestone (w:
0.92 x h:
0.45, depth unknown).
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata; in the left ansa a branch.
Letters: av. 0.07.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin:
Seen and photographed by Goodchild in 1948 in situ over the South doorway of Gasr el-Ureia, the best preserved of a group of 3 gsur, close to the head of the Wadi el-Ureia, an upper tributary of the Wadi el-Màader,
2.5 km. East of the Tarhuna - Beni Ulid road at Uestata (map ref. Q 9483).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1948)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Not usefully translatable.
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
Ansiden Viva son of lban, the priest, consecrated (this) small statue (or: stele) to the worship of the gods, Imuleh Isdriny erected it.
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
Not usefully translatable.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 892, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 892; Goodchild, 1950a 139 ff. and pi. XVII b, whence Elmayer, 1984 100-101, whence EDH 020950 Elmayer, 1997, 58; this edition Kerr, 2010, 198 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 5. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 6. Sketch after a photograph by Goodchild (from IRT p. 219)