WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0897. Acclamation

Description: Keystone
Text: Inscribed within a wreath in relief.
Letters: No description.

Date: Third century CE (context, )

Findspot: Wadi Zemzem: Gheriat el-Garbia, the Roman fort, over the main gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1914)

Interpretive

Pro(uincia)
Afr(ica)
ill(oustris)

Diplomatic

PRO
AFR
ILL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(scil. To) the illustrious province of Africa.

Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 4; IRT, 1952, 897, whence IRT, 2009, 897, whence EDH 059740; 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)