Description: Lower right corner of a limestone
block: w:
0.30 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.11-0.13.
Text:
Inscribed on one face, within a
tabella ansata which is defined by a raised border; the last letter is outside the border
Letters: Very rough local fourth-fifth century capitals; 0.035-0.04; lines 2-3, 0.03; lines 4-5 slope upwards
Date: Fourth-fifth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
in a hut at Muagen Ngorta,
Wadi Scetaj
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
(What can be read of this text is unintelligible)
Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 7 and plate XVIII.b, whence AE 1962, page 73, Elmayer, 1997, 65, Kerr, 2010, 208 (where see bibliography)
Images
Fig. 1. Department of Antiquities