Description:
Block of
brown limestone, broekn at the right side and partly covered by mortar
w:
0.94 x h:
0.56 x d:
0.17
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded
panel (w:
0.88 x h:
0.47)
Letters: 0.04
Date: 198-211 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Jabal Nafusah:
Ain el-Auenia; found south of the Jefren-Zintan road,
"midway up the hillside above the wells" in 1958
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
Interpretive
Soli Hierobolo pro sa[lute]
dominorum nn⟦n⟧(ostrorum) Augg[⟦g(?)⟧](ustorum) [Se-]
ueri et Antonini ⟦et Getae⟧
e[t] Iuliae totiusq(ue) do[mus]
5diuinae per uexilla[tio-]
nem leg(ionis) ((leaf)) III Ạ[u]g(ustae) ((leaf)) et mil[ites]
coh[o]ṛt[i]s [I] [S]yro[r]um sagit-
[ta]riorum a solo [c. 8]
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Diplomatic
SOLIHIEROBOLOPROSA[....]
DOMINORUMNN⟦N⟧AUGG[...-]
UERIETANTONINI⟦ETGETAE⟧
E[.]IULIAETOTIUSQDO[...]
5DIUINAEPERUEXILLA[...-]
NEMLEG ❦ III.[.]G ❦ ETMIL[....]
COH[.].T[.]S[..]YRO[.]UMSAGIT
[..]RIORUMASOLO[········]
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To Sol Hierobolos, for the safety of our lords the Augusti Severus and Antoninus [and Geta] (erased) and Julia, and the whole divine household: by the work of a company of the Third Legion Augusta, and soldiers of the First
Cohort of Syrian archers from the ground [ . . .
Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 1, and plate XVII, whence AE 1962.304, Mattingly, 1985 71-2, Le Bohec, 1989 89, whence AE 1992.1761, EDH 016963; .
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