Description: Fragment from the lower part of an inscription
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: No description
Date: 239 CE: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem:
Gheriat el-Garbia, seen in 1914, in the hall of an Arab house.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1914)
Interpretive
[Imp(eratore) Caes(ari) M(arco) Ant(onio) Gordian]o Pio ((stop)) Fe[lici Aug(usto)]
[sub --- leg(ato)] Ạụg(usti) ((stop)) pr(o) p[r](aetore) [c(larissimo) u(iro)]
[milit(es) cohortis I Syrorum sa]g(ittariorum) Gordian[ae]
[---] uetusta[te di-]
5[lapsum item aquae ductu]m bell<o> dissị[patum]
[et uiam quae? ---]ATSA col(oniam) Lep̣[cim]
[---]o restituer[unt ---]
[Imp(eratore) d(omino) n(ostro) Gordiano et Aui]ola co(n)s(ulibus) cur<a>n[te]
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Diplomatic
[..................]OPIO • FE[.......]
[...---...]..G • PRP[...]
[.......................]GGORDIAN[..]
[---]UETUSTA[....-]
5[....................]MBELLDISS.[.....]
[..........---]ATSACOLLE.[...]
[---]ORESTITUER[...---]
[..................]OLACOSCURN[..]
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English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [---] Pius Felix Augustus [---] Gordian (case not known) [---] with age [---] they restored [---]
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[Under Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordian]us, Felix, Augustus [and under xxx] pro praetorian legate of the emperor, [man
of senatorial status: The soldiers of ] Gordian [Cohort I of Syrian] archers [ . . .] collapsed from age [and also the aqueduct]
damaged by war [? and the road which ?leads to] colonia Lepcis [ . . . ] they restored. When the consuls were our lord Gordian
and Aviola: [ . . . ] oversaw [ . . .
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 896, whence IRT, 2009, 896; Loriot, 1971 , whence AE 1973.573, Mattingly, 1985 70-71, EDH 011642; Le Bohec, 1989 89; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (March 1914): From left:
896,
897,
895: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 617)
