Description: Moulded pedestal of limestone
(w:
0.77 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.63) intended to carry a column; the surface badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata in
relief (w:
0.39 x h:
0.23).
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.025-0.03. S with crossbar for ST ligature (as in 980).
Date: First-fourth centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Bir Scedeua, necropolis near Gasr D; Found by Mr. R.G. Goodchild (map ref. Tripolitania, 1/500,000,
Sheet 8, Mizda, 9060).1
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
6: The letters in this line appear to be much more widely spread than in the remainder of the inscription.
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
This mausoleum M[asta]uchan, daughter of Iyllul for him made [ . . . ] Masiran and [ . . .
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.20, whence IRT, 2009, 992, Elmayer, 1997, 66, Kerr, 2010, 184 (where see bibliography)
Images
None available (2021).