Description:
Lintel (width incomplete w:
1.70 x h:
0.43 x d:
0.60) of grey limestone, re-used as the upright of an olive-press;
two slots have been cut in the inscribed face and the right-hand end is missing.
Text: Inscribed in two lines, each line within a recessed panel (w:
1.20 x h:
0.10),
with simple, incised, linear ornament between the two panels. The lower panel ended in ansae, the right-hand one of which
is missing; in the left-hand ansa
Α Ω
Letters: Capitals: 0.07.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Umm el-Msareb;
Seen by Romanelli in 1915, and rediscovered and copied by Oates in 1949, in the ruins of olive-presses, south-west of
Ghlil (map ref. M 178278).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1949)
2: The last legible letter is possibly a B.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable, but perhaps line 1 contained the name Nicomachus.)
Bibliography: Described Romanelli, 1919, 29 (text not given); IRT, 1952, 878a, whence IRT, 2009, 878a, whence EDH 059725; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 594-6(?))
Fig. 5. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR