Description:
Block from the angle of the sculptured frieze of a mausoleum (w:
0.18 x h:
0.53 x d:
0.265, right-hand edge broken).
On the front a standing male figure facing to the right;
on the left face a mounted horseman galloping to the right, spear in hand,
and below the horse a hound and a stag;
inscribed on the front above the figure.
Text: Inscribed on the front above the figure
Letters: No description.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem: (presumably; cf. 900,
901)
Ghirza (map ref. W 7052). Origin not specifically recorded, but belongs certainly to a group of sculpture and inscriptions seen
by Denham and Clapperton in 1824 and removed prior to 1868
to Istanbul; see also 900,
901.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now inaccessible in the vaults of the
Çinili Köşk, Istanbul.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Isicuar
Commentary
For this name see also 867, line 1-2, and 886(h), line 2, and (k); the final R, read by Dumont and others, has since been damaged.
Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 10972, CIL VIII suppl.3, 1904 745 illustrated and described in Mendel, 1914 II, 68-9; IRT, 1952, 902, whence IRT, 2009, 902, whence EDH 059743
Images
None available (2021).