Description:
Block of soft brown limestone (w: 0.80 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.50), part of a window frame, carved on one of the narrow faces with a rinceau. 
Text:
Inscribed on one of the adjacent broad faces; the inscribed face is roughly dressed, more carefully smoothed on the part inscribed, and cannot have been visible when the block was in position. 
Letters:
Roughly incised lettering, which includes local fourth to fifth century A.D. forms: 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: From the church excavated by Caputo at Al Khadra, near Sidi Ali ben Zaid, South of the Tarhuna-Cussabat road near the East bank of the Wadi el-Fergian(map ref. M 095176). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Caputo, Bullettino del Museo dell'Impero Romano (supplement to Bull. Comm. Arch.), XIII:152. 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) 

(Not transcribed, see image.)

(Not transcribed, see image.)

<note>
Not transcribed, see image.
</note>

Translation:

Not usefully translatable

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.IX.21)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.IX.21)
Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 213)
 Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 213)

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