Description:
Block (w: 0.70 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.19) of brown limestone  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.30 a) In the panel. b) In the right ansa. Left ansa obliterated. There are formal sprays in the angles. 
Letters:
Late capitals: 0.05-0.07. 
Date:
 
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: From the large mausoleum at Bir el-Uaar (Ulàd Brech map ref. Q. 595755) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Romanelli, Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXIV-V: 39-42, no. 8 : L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1921:88. 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) 
a
Bibe Issicua-
r quia mer-
eris cum fi-
li tui Semp
5et Eisrelia
b
A I
a
BIBEISSICVA
RQVIAMER
ERISCVMFI
LITVISEMP
5ETEISRELIA
b
AI
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Bibe
Issicua
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
r
quia
mer
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
eris
cum
fi
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
li
tui
Semp
<lb n="5" />
et
Eisrelia
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<orig >
i
</orig>
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. Live Issicuar because you deserve it, together with your children Semp (?) and Eisrelia.

b. (Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Issicuar. For this name, see also 886 (h) and (k), 902.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 684 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 684 Leica)

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