234. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Fragmentary sandstone block (surviving, w: 0.82 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.35), formerly stuccoed and now badly weathered.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face with part of a monumental inscription.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals, probably first century: 0.21.
- Date:
- Probably first century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Oea: The Spanish Fort, Tripoli. Found in 1914-1915 during demolition of the fort.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, II:329, fig. 17; R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, 5. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
s
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ul
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
s
n
<unclear
reason=""
>
o
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] proconsul (governor) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVIII.27)
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