356. Fragmentary building inscription under Trajan

Description:
Upper right- hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.73 x h: 0.095). 
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata. The complete text was of three lines. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals:c. 0.045. 
Date:
98-117 A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. 
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) 
[Imp(eratore) Caes(are) d]iui Neruae f(ilio) Nerua Traiano
[Aug(usto) ·· ? ··]
[---]
[······]IVINERVAEFNERVATRAIANO
[······ ? ··]
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
are
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
iui
Neruae
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
Nerua
Traiano
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[When emperor Caesar] Nerva Trajan [Augustus], son of deified Nerva [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.11)

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