890. Fragmentary Libyan text

Description:
Block of limestone, one of three (together w: 2.20 x h: 0.50) The outer pair are ornamented with triangular panels with volute terminals (as 859, 804) and elaborate rosettes; and the central block comprises the inscribed die within a cable border, flanked by narrow vertical panels with elaborate rosettes.  
Text:
Inscribed die (w: 0.47 x h: 0.35).The text has been deliberately defaced by early Arab graffiti.  
Letters:
Rough capitals, inscribed between guide-lines: av. 0.04. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Gasr es-Suq el-Oti. Seen by Goodchild and Ward Perkins in 1948 in situ over the door of a gasr (map ref. R 3222) in the Wadi Bosra South East of Beni Ulid. 
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 (Goodchild, Ward-Perkins) 
VIỊSỊṂ [·· ? ··?]TD
T[·· 4··]S[·· ? ··]
[---]
4 [---]
5 VY[·]BẠ[·· ? ··?]A
[·· ? ··]ỊD [·· ? ··]HAN
VI·S··[·· ? ··?]TD
T[·· 4··]S[·· ? ··]
[---]
4[---]
5VY[·]B·[·· ? ··?]A
[·· ? ··]·D[·· ? ··]HAN
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
ui
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
s
<unclear reason="" >
im
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
<orig >
td
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
t
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<orig >
s
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="5" />
<orig >
uy
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
b
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap2" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
d
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap3" />
<orig >
han
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

Not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.III.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.III.6)

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