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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1129. Christian invocation

Description: Lintel block in limestone, possibly broken to the left w: 0.82 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.15 .
Text: Inscribed within a lightly cut outline, to the right of a hand in relief. The second line has been compressed into the lower border
Letters: Line 1, 0.12-0.13; line 2, 0.04

Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: in the ruins of a ditched gasr about 6 km north west of Marconi
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Dom(inus) bened-
xit

Diplomatic

DOMBENED
XIT

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

The Lord has blessed.

Bibliography: Oates, 1954 1, p.113, whence mentioned AE 1955, page 60.

Images

   Fig. 1. Photograph (Ward-Perkins)