Description: Limestone
block: no measurements
Text:
Inscribed on one face; within tabella ansata, flanked by reliefs of birds (eagles?): the bird on the left is holding an animal,
the one on the right is holding a bird. i cut between guideleines; ii a little rougher, without guidelines.
Letters: Local fourth-fifth century capitals; 0.02
Date: Fourth-fifth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Gasr Isawi, in Wadi Migdal, in situ above the door.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1959).
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Marcius Metasan son of Fidelis and the Flavii Hanochulam and Seic[- . . . ] grandsons of Fidelis and ? Flaviae [ . . .] established this ?plaque [ . . .] ?may they live [ . . .
Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 5 and plate XIX, whence AE 1962, page 73, Elmayer, 1997, 55.
Images
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