386. Fragmentary ?dedication to Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble architrave panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.06), re-used.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the reverse face.
- Letters:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.055.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering, reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Curia.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
di
<unclear
reason=""
>
u
</unclear>
i
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<num
value="9"
>
IX
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of the deified [·· ? ··], acclaimed victor nine times [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 2. M. Aurelius or Septimius Severus.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.30)
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