343. Fragmentary ?dedication to ?Vespasian
- Description:
- Three blocks of brown limestone, two complete and one fragmentary (h: 0.42 x d: 0.51 with traces of cornice-moulding above). a) two blocks, together, length 1.19. b) one block, length: 0.71.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.12-0.13.
- Date:
- A.D. 69-79 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Probably re-used in the Fourth century wall.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now lying loose beside the West Gate.
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 84, part of a) only. 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
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
Vespasiani
C
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
aesaris
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ificis
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
tr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ibunicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
po
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
t
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
estate
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
a. [·· ? ··] of [emperor] Vespasian Caesar Augustus [·· ? ··]
b. [·· ? ··] chief priest, holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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