Description:
Cipollino column (diam. w: 0.52 x ). 
Text:
Inscribed while upside-down, within a roughly oval frame. 
Letters:
Rough late capitals: 0.025-0.04. For the unusual form of G (J) see also 876 and 261 (39).  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Near the Bab el-G'edid, Tripoli. Found re-used as a door-sill. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle. 
Bibliography:
Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, II:334-6, figs 20-1; Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXXIV-V:35-36, no. 4, Pl II, 4. 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) 
Maria crux
crux Angelus
crux Gabriel crux
MARIA crux
crux ANGELVS
crux GABRIEL crux
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Maria
<g type="crux" > </g>
<lb n="2" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
Angelus
<lb n="3" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
Gabriel
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

Maria (cross), (cross) Angel (cross) Gabriel (cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 156)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 156)

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