Description:
Limestone
block
(w:
0.57 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.45), inscribed on one face above a phallus in crude relief.
Text: Inscribed on one face above a phallus in crude relief.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.05.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem:
Wadi Scetaf,
Gasr Chanifes,
(map ref. W 6379), fallen from the door of a fortifled farmhouse on the East side of the Bir Tala - Ghirza track.
Recorded in 1948 by Goodchild.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1948)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Of Mercury
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 905, whence IRT, 2009, 905, whence EDH 059746; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 343)