992. Libyan text

Description:
Moulded pedestal of limestone (w: 0.77 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.63) intended to carry a column; the surface badly weathered.  
Text:
inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata in relief (w: 0.39 x h: 0.23).  
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.025-0.03. S with crossbar for ST ligature (as in 980).  
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
The Middle and Lower Sofeggin Basin: Necropolis near Gasr D at Bir Scedeua; Found by Mr. R.G. Goodchild (map ref. Tripolitania, 1/500,000, Sheet 8, Mizda, 9060).1 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.20. 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds)  
MYNSTYSTHSTYTHM[···]
VCHANRYTHIYḶVḶỌ[···]
HVḶẸṂṆIẠ[···]CHIẠTHM
ỊMỊO[··]M[·]Ạ[·· c. 5··]
5VṆ[···]MẠSIRANVỴ[··]
MṾMROL
MYNSTYSTHSTYTHM[···]
VCHANRYTHIY·V··[···]
HV····I·[···]CHI·THM
·M·O[··]M[·]·[·· c. 5··]
5V·[···]M·SIRANV·[··]
M·MROL
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
myn
st
ysth
st
ythm
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
vchanrythiy
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
v
<unclear reason="damage" >
lo
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<orig >
hv
<unclear reason="" >
lemn
</unclear>
i
<unclear reason="damage" >
a
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" precision="circa" />
chi
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
thm
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
m
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
o
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
m
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="5" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="5" />
<orig >
v
<unclear reason="damage" >
n
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
m
</orig>
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
siranv
<unclear reason="damage" >
y
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<orig >
m
<unclear reason="" >
v
</unclear>
mrol
</orig>
</ab>

6, The letters in this line appear to be much more widely spread than in the remainder of the inscription.

Translation:

Not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

For a brief reference to this site see R.G. Goodchild, 'The Limes Tripolitanus II', JRS xl (1950), 33.

For the probable meaning of Mynstysth = monument see 906,

The following seem to be names: M[...]VCHAN (cf. Masauchan in 906, 996); IYLVL (see also in 996); MASIRANVY (for the suffix -uy, see 996, n. 3).

Photographs:
none.

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