Description: Left side of a broken sandstone block
(w:
0.48 x h:
0.27 x d:
0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one of the exposed faces.
Letters: Line 1, 0.13; line 2, 0.045; probably square sigma and lunate sigma, cursive omega, cursive alpha.
Date: Probably sixth century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Byzantine 'fortress'; found in 1966.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, lying loose in late buildings to the west.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
Line 2: This line may contain parts of the words ἐλπίδος (of hope) and κώμης (comes), or κώμη (village).
Bibliography: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 223.c, whence SEG 53.2071.4
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, IV.34)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, SB.V.282)