266. Dedication to Apollo

Description:
Block (w: 0.67 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.50) of yellow limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.25) and subsequently effaced.  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.045. 
Date:
Probably second to mid-third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Beside the street West of the Theatre. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
〚Apollini iub[e]ni〛
〚Clodio Cr[es]cente
Iub[i]nico ỊOỊVSṾIT 〛
〚DỊỊ ỊEOỊSỊỊFOIṾ [·· 4-5··] 〛
〚APOLLINIIVB[··]NI〛
〚CLODIOCR[···]CENTE
IVB[··]NICO·O·VS·IT〛
〚D·· ·EO·S··FOI·[·· 4-5··]〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
Apollini
iub
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
ni
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
Clodio
Cr
<supplied reason="lost" >
es
</supplied>
cente
<lb n="3" />
Iub
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
nico
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
o
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
us
<unclear reason="" >
u
</unclear>
it
</orig>
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<del>
<orig >
d
<unclear reason="" >
ii
</unclear>
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
eo
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
s
<unclear reason="" >
ii
</unclear>
foi
<unclear reason="" >
u
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" extentmax="5" />
</del>
</ab>

Translation:

To the young Apollo; ?when Clodius Crescens Iubenicus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.32)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.32)

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