267. Fragmentary dedication to Attis
- Description:
- Upper part of a rectangular base (w: 0.38 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.39, height incomplete) of brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.15 x h: 0.23, height incomplete).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.035.
- Date:
- Probably second to mid-third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Magna Mater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Formerly in Homs Museum, now in Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 87. 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"
/>
Attini
deo
<lb
n="2"
/>
Flauia
Pro
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
cu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
l
</supplied>
a
ob
me
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
oriam
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
si
<unclear
reason=""
>
u
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
To the god Attis; Flavia Procula, in memory of [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
ll. 2-3. Flavia Procula. See also 641 , 11. 2- 3.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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