Description: Upper part of a grey limestone
stele (w:
0.61 x h:
0.70 x d:
0.25)
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel
(die, 0.44)
with schematic pediment and acroteria above.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.035-0.04.
Date: 201-259 CE (context)
Findspot:
Bu Njem: from the
Necropolis south of the fort
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Sacred to the gods below. Lucius Domitius Crescens lived twenty(?+) years; Octavius Ro[c. 4] and Hostilia Maxima, his heirs, set this up for one who deserved it.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928a, 58; IRT, 1952, 921, whence IRT, 2009, 921, whence EDH 059761; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 678 Leica)