272. Votive fragment

Description:
Right-hand side of a panel (width incomplete w: 0.32 x h: 0.25) of grey-flecked white marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lettering: 0.04-0.045. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] honoratus
[·· ? ··]forus Cirten(sis)
[·· ? ··]ris deum u(otum) s(oluit)
[·· ? ··]HONORATVS
[·· ? ··]FORVSCIRTEN
[·· ? ··]RISDEVMVS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
honoratus
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
forus
<expan>
<abbr>
Cirten
</abbr>
<ex>
sis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ris
deum
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
otum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
oluit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] honoured (nominative case) [·· ? ··]forus (end of a name in the nominative case) of Cirta[·· ? ··the mother] (case unknown) of the gods, paid his vow.

Commentary:

line 3: Perhaps .. sacerdos matris deum. see also 567 .

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.19A)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.19A)

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