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Epigraphic disjecta membra in Cyrenaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

J. M. Reynolds
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1. In 1936 Professor Gaspare Oliverio published an inscription cut on a sandstone stele found re-used in one of the Churches of ancient Taucheira. The apparently mundane text has attracted no attention. In 1959 R. G. Goodchild initiated serious excavation of the building concerned by the Libyan Department of Antiquities and in the course of work supervised by Mr. Breyek Atiyah another inscribed sandstone stele was found very close to Oliverio's. It became apparent that the two adjoined and that the resulting text is of some interest.

Two rectangular sandstone blocks forming part of a composite monument (together width 0.72 m × height 1.17 × depth 0.40), a damaged at the upper righthand corner, b along all edges; there is extensive pitting on the face, some of which had already occurred before the stone was inscribed.

Letters, II–III cent. A.D.: 1.1, 0.06; 11.2–5, 0.05–0.06; ε, ω; Y cut within 0 in 11.3, 4; the cutter has spaced so as to avoid holes in the face.

G. Oliverio, Documenti Antichi dell'Africa Italiana II (Bergamo, 1936), no.288 and pl.LXXII, fig.29, whence SEG IX, 544 (righthand side only).

Photos, Dept. F.1078 (righthand side only); JR Tocra III. 51 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum). See plate 1.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 6 , 1974 , pp. 18 - 24
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1974

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