Description:
block (w:
0.72 x h:
0.55 x d:
0.31) of yellowish limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w:
0.40 x h:
0.45), with leaves in relief below the ansae.
Letters: Local fourth to fifth century CE capitals, between horizontal guide-lines as in 876: 0.03-0.04. T and I are not consistently distinguished.
Date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
From an unidentified site on the road between Al Khadra village and Tarhuna.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
In the garden of a colonist's cottage (seen by Goodchild in 1947)
4: O Probably an uncompleted monogram cross, as in the closely related 876.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
The Flavii Sebentius, centenarius, and Stiddin, his wife, dedicated this place, a good beginning and for the children born to them a place in which to come together with their children safe, happily, triumphing in the possession of Binaitir.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 875, whence Elmayer, 1997, 25, IRT, 2009, 875, whence EDH 059721; Goodchild, 1951 a.2, whence mentioned AE 1954.181; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR