Description: Rectangular base (w:
1.60 x h:
0.55 x d:
0.60) of limestone. There is a small niche above the inscribed panel.
Text: a, inscribed on one face within a moulded panel; b, in smaller lettering, appears to have been inserted in the space vacant
at the beginning of line 7.
Letters: Third to fourth centuries capitals: 0.05-0.06.
Date: Third to fourth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Wadi Merdum, at
Faschiet el-Habs (map ref. R 4748), a little
North West of the crossing of the road Beni Ulid - Bir Dufan. Seen by Goodchild in 1948
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1948)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. Sacred to the gods below. Naborsurnia lived eighty years [---].
b. (not translatable.)
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
a. D(is) M(anibus) S(acrum). Nabor Surnia lived years n80 [---].
b. (not translatable.)
Commentary
Lines 8-10: the left-hand margin of the stone is missing but it is not clear whether any letters have been lost.
Bibliography: Transcribed by Goodchild, whence IRT, 1952, 894, whence Elmayer, 1997, 60, IRT, 2009, 894, whence EDH 059737; Kerr, 2010, 192 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 340)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 341)