Description: Right side of a limestone door- or window-arch from a window or small door (w:
0.55 x h:
0.45 x d:
0.27), decorated with a central relief of a cross within a wreath, and a second relief cross to the right.
Text: Inscribed above the relief and around the cross on the right;
the surface has been slightly damaged.
Letters: Average 0.03-c.0.035; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega.
Date: Sixth century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Siret al Bab, c. 3km from
Sidi Bu Breyek, in the ruins of a church;
found in 1976.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
. . . ] and wisdom of God [ . . . ] of those who made [ . . .
Commentary
Apparently an invocation for the builders of the church
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 2000, 3, whence SEG 50.1649; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 410, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.437.; for discussion see SEG 60.1843
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).