Description: Block reused in the defence wall of a settlement.
w:
1.20 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.35.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Roughly-formed letters (0.005-0.07), with angular sigma and omega, diamond-shaped theta.
Date: Fifth - sixth century CE.
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Gasr el Benia/Geballa, re-used in a late wall
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
God is (i.e. our) help
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 2000, 10, p.1496 whence SEG 50.1634; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 397, whence SEG 53.2037. For the fortress see Goodchild, 1953, 67-8; Stucchi, 1975, 516-17; Mohamed, 1992, 52, 53.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).