302. Fragmentary dedication to ?Mercury

Description:
Lower part of a base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.46). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.55).  
Letters:
Lettering: ll. 1-7, 0.05; remainder, 0.035-0.04. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: On the sea- shore West of the Temple of Neptune. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 134; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1926:164; De Laet, Portorium 1949, 252; Also Reynolds, Papers of the British School at RomeXIX (1951) 118-121, pl.XX,2. 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) 
[·· ? ··]A[ - - - ]
[···Me]rcurio
[·· 5-6··]imus
Ṭṛaiani Aug(usti)
5ser(uus) Priscil-
lanus uil(icus)
mariṭ(imus) et XX
hered(itatium) Lepc[is]
Magn(ae) d(edit) d(edicauit)
[·· ? ··]A[ - - - ]
[······]RCVRIO
[·· 5-6··]IMVS
··AIANIAVG
5SERPRISCIL
LANVSVIL
MARI·ETXX
HEREDLEPC[···]
MAGNDD
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Me
</supplied>
rcurio
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="5" unit="character" extentmax="6" />
imus
<lb n="4" />
<unclear reason="" >
Tr
</unclear>
aiani
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ser
</abbr>
<ex>
uus
</ex>
</expan>
Priscil
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
lanus
<expan>
<abbr>
uil
</abbr>
<ex>
icus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
mari
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
imus
</ex>
</expan>
et
<num value="20" >
XX
</num>
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
hered
</abbr>
<ex>
itatium
</ex>
</expan>
Lepc
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Magn
</abbr>
<ex>
ae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edit
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edicauit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

7, Compare vilicus terrestris, 315a.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to Mercury [·· ? ··]imus Priscillanus, slave of Trajan Augustus, superintendent of this tax on seaborne goods and of the levy of a twentieth on inheritances at Lepcis Magna, gave and dedicated (this).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.10)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.10)

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