Description: Limestone
panel (w:
1.53 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.43)
damaged above.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata
(die, w:
0.43 x h:
0.46); the tabella is supported on each side by an eagle with outstretched wings, holding a hare in its claws
Letters: Good square capitals, 0.04.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Wadi el-Amud: Gasr at Site 10
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle
4: perhaps NI.
7: FE . . . Brogan, 1964
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . Masiran, great grandson, added this structure above the building of his father.? He made (it)
Commentary
The names seem to be local, and the final word is Punic
Bibliography: Brogan, 1964, 53, whence Elmayer, 1997, 71, EDCS 59900161
Images
None available (2021).