447. Fragmentary ?dedication to ?Severan emperor
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper right-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.34 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.085).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.105.
- Date:
- The lettering suggests Geta or Seuerus Alexander.
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<del>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
uen
</orig>
Translation:
(It is not usefully translatable)
Commentary:
l.2: The letters [·· ? ··]uen in this context are likely to be part of the title princeps iuventutis.
The subject of the inscription, whose name has been erased, was probably Geta. The lettering suggests Geta, or perhaps Severus Alexander.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.30)
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