Description:
Block of limestone, one of three (together w:
2.20 x h:
0.50)
The outer pair are ornamented with triangular panels with volute terminals (as 859, 804) and elaborate rosettes;
and the central block comprises the inscribed die within a cable border, flanked by narrow vertical panels with elaborate
rosettes.
Text: Inscribed die (w:
0.47 x h:
0.35).The text has been deliberately defaced by early Arab graffiti.
Letters: Rough capitals, inscribed between guide-lines: av. 0.04.
Date: First-fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin:
Gasr es-Suq el-Oti. Seen by Goodchild and Ward Perkins in 1948 in situ over
the door of a gasr (map ref. R 3222) in the Wadi Bosra south east of Beni Ulid.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1948)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Not usefully translatable.
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
Not usefully translatable.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 890, whence Elmayer, 1997, 57, IRT, 2009, 890, whence EDH 059734, Kerr, 2010, 197 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.III.6)