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120 Fadel Ali Mohamed - Joyce Reynolds<br />

L. 5, the siglum is not absolutely certain but must have been intended;<br />

the cutter <strong>di</strong>d not, perhaps, understand what he was copying.<br />

3. Two adjoining pieces from the upper part of a rectangular stele of<br />

locallimestone (width 0.29 x height 0.23 x depth 0.11) inscribed on one<br />

face within a sunk panel (width of flat border, 0.03); there is a triangular<br />

projection in the centre back near the top. Found in a rock-cut tomb<br />

on the east side of the Messa/Haniya road some 12 kms north of Messa,<br />

near Si<strong>di</strong> Shaherrwha; now in Cyrene Museum. Plate In<br />

Letters, perhaps n cent. AD: l. 1, 0.025; l. 2, 0.021; l. 3, 0.03; l.<br />

4,0.015; alpha with upward slanting bar in the manner of cursive, lunate<br />

sigma and omega; L for È't&v, with superscript bar; superscript bars<br />

probably also above both figures; possibly two hands.<br />

Fadel Ali and Reynolds, forthcoming in «Libya Antiqua».<br />

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