Description:
Block (w: 0.90 x h: 0.54) of limestone 
Text:
Inscribed within a narrow border; below the text, two victories uphold a wreath containing a small rosette; to the left, a four-lobed plait; below the right-hand victory, a bird. 
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Shemech (map ref. R 1402): Seen and photographed in position over the door of an unidentified gasr nearby, described by Petrignani as << Gasr Uadi el Bir presso Scemek >>. Subsequently removed to the Fort at Shemech. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Petrignani, Il Sahara Tripolitano (Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) Roma, 1928, 80; Goodchlld, Antiquaries Journal, XXX:137 ff. And pl. XVI a. 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>

line 2, perhaps for fecit centenarium

Translation:

?Flavius Dasamaus, son of Macrinus, built the tower [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.I.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.I.29)
Sketch after a photograph (from IRT p. 219)
 Sketch after a photograph (from IRT p. 219)

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