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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1049. Fragment

Description: Lower right corner of a limestone block: w: 0.30 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.11-0.13.
Text: Inscribed on one face, within a tabella ansata which is defined by a raised border; the last letter is outside the border
Letters: Very rough local fourth-fifth century capitals; 0.035-0.04; lines 2-3, 0.03; lines 4-5 slope upwards

Date: Fourth-fifth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: in a hut at Muagen Ngorta, Wadi Scetaj
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

[---]ARI
[---]LUTHC
[---]NI SYT
[---]ỤSꞨṆIMMẠH
5[---]( vac. 1)CHRUSUBUN

Diplomatic

[---]ARI
[---]LUTHC
[---]NI SYT
[---].SꞨ.IMM.H
5[---]  CHRUSUBUN

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

(What can be read of this text is unintelligible)

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1960 7 and plate XVIII.b, whence AE 1962, page 73, Elmayer, 1997, 65, Kerr, 2010, 208 (where see bibliography)

Images

   Fig. 1. Department of Antiquities