871. Fragmentary Libyan text

Description:
Two blocks of limestone (w: 0.70 x and w: 0.96 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.33  
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata(die, w: 0.90 x h: 0.40, width incomplete) of which the right-hand end, on a third block, is missing. The inscribed surface is badly damaged. 
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.035-0.04. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: beside the ruins of a small ditched gasr at Sidi Sames (map ref. L 660010), 8 km. North East of Ain Wif, close to the Garian-Tarhuna track. Seen and transcribed in 1948 by Goodchild and Ward Perkins 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1948) 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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 (Goodchikd and Ward-Perkins) 
[·· c. 10··]EP̣[··]CỊỊ[·· ? ··]
N[·· c. 18··]NI[·· ? ··]
NI[··]SARORVM[··]VG ỊỊỊỊỊ [·· ? ··]
IṆPINSISIṆ[·· c. 16··]P̣ISF[·· ? ··]
5 [---]
6 [---]
7LỊṆỊ[··]IMI[··]RIVSCỌ[··]N[·· ? ··]
[·· c. 10··]E·[··]C··[·· ? ··]
N[·· c. 18··]NI[·· ? ··]
NI[··]SARORVM[··]VG·····[·· ? ··]
I·PINSISI·[·· c. 16··]·ISF[·· ? ··]
5[---]
6[---]
7L···[··]IMI[··]RIVSC·[··]N[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
e
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
c
<unclear reason="" >
ii
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
n
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="18" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
ni
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<orig >
ni
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
sarorum
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
vg
</orig>
<unclear reason="damage" >
IIIII
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<orig >
i
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
pinsisi
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="16" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
isf
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="7" />
<orig >
l
<unclear reason="" >
ini
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
imi
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
riusc
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
n
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Not usefully translatable, but may be from the word noster, our.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.28)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.29)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.30)

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