Description:
Block of limestone veined with quartz, broken at the top
(w:
0.58 x h:
0.38 x d:
0.58)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunk tabella ansata.
Letters: Rough capitals, with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.035; line 4, 5, 0.03; line 6, 0.035-0.04.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
A barren ridge approx. 1 km. south-west of Scetib es-Sedd and 25
km. south of Cussabat (map ref. M 300, 065). Found by Mr. David Oates.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
6: TR ligatured.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[Sacred] to the gods below of Balyna; she lived for thirty-eight years; Caius Caecilius Lupus had this made for his most obedient wife and for the builder.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.18, whence AE 1957.242, whence EDH 017459 IRT, 2009, 990, whence EDH 017459
Images
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