Description: Five blocks of sandstone from a continuous course
(lengths varying, 0.47),inscribed on one face.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Irregular late capitals. a) Lettering: 0.22-0.26.b) Lettering: 0.13-0.15; uncial E with serifs.
Date: Third-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Amphitheatre, now in the cavea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
a.i.1: Or ... NISB ...
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
a) i. and ii. are probably consecutive.
Benabbes (2015), 127, suggests that b.iii mighty be read as the ethnonym Aoer, referring to Auru, and the Hawara tribe.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 187, whence IRT, 2009, 187, whence EDH 059163; Montali, 2015 8-12; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. From left: a.ii, b.i, b.ii, b.iii; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.VI.4)
Fig. 2. From left: b.i, ii, iii; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.VI.5)
Fig. 3. a.ii; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.VI.6)