285. Fragmentary ?dedication to the Genius of Lepcis
- Description:
- Two fragments of a white marble panel (w: 0.21 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.022 and w: 0.17 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.022, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century A.D. capitals: 0.085.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
enio
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
ma
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, Perhaps Genio coloniae Lepcis Magnae.
Translation:
[·· ? ·· To the g]enius [of the colony Lepcis] Ma[gna·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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