Description: Re-used block of Proconnesian marble, perhaps first used in the second century CE,
with traces along the upper edge of a chiselled-out egg and dart moulding (w:
0.84 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.65).
Text: Inscribed on one exposed face which is partially encrusted with a hard deposit.
Letters: 0.14; lunate sigma, cursive omega; very finely cut.
Date: Perhaps sixth century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
re-used in the late buildings north of the Decumanus, opposite the Byzantine 'fortress';
found in 1966.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.I.12)
Fig. 2. Context (Joyce Reynolds, 69)
Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds, SB.V.292)