349a. Fragmentary dedication to Domitian (?)
- Description:
- Architrave block (w: 0.67 x h: 0.53 surviving depth 0.51) of grey limestone, with moulding top and bottom and socket for 16 cm beam at the back.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- One line of Neo-Punic follows the Latin text. Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.14; l.2 0.10. The surviving text of this line reads: [. . . provided] for the work the meqim elim [ . . . ]
- Date:
- 81-96 A.D. (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Seen by Delaporte in 1806 among the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Dolichenus
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- later presented to King George IV, and (see 310a) now in the British Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:7. 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Vespasian
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
<del>
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ili
</ex>
<del>
D
<unclear
reason=""
>
o
</unclear>
m
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
itian
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</ex>
</expan>
sufe
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
2, Flamen Aug(usti) or aug(ur).
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Domitian (case unknown) son of [Vespasian·· ? ··] ? priest of Aug[ustus] ( or augur, i.e. priest), sufete [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Photo copyright British Museum)
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