Description:
Block of limestone (w:
1.10 x h:
0.55 x d:
0.60)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata (w:
0.59 x h:
0.37).
Letters: Graceful capitals with Rustic forms, probably third century: lines 1-4, 0.07-0.08; line 5, 0.03.
Date: Probably third century (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
To the south of a ruined gasr, 16 km. south-east of Cussabat
and 4 km. north-east of Gasr Umm er-Raml; found by Mr. David Oates.
(map ref. M 409, 224).1
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below of Quintus Portius Iovinus; he lived for 10 (plus ?) years. Quintus Portius Reginus, his most dutiful father, had this made for a peaceable son.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.17, whence IRT, 2009, 989, whence EDH 059827
Images
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