254. Acclamation

Description:
Cipollino column split and re-used as an architrave. (w: 1.50 x h: 0.57), and inscribed longitudinally.  
Text:
Inscribed longitudinally. 
Letters:
Lettering (uncials): 0.08-0.095. The crux is a compass-traced Greek cross in a double circle  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: The Forte della Vite. Found during demolition. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle. 
Bibliography:
Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXIVXXV:33-34, no. 3 This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
S(an)c(tu)s crux D(eu)s
SCS crux DS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
S
</abbr>
<ex>
an
</ex>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
tu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
eu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Holy (cross) God.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 154)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 154)

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