484. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Two blocks of brownish-grey limestone, much damaged. a) w: 1.04 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54, front, back, and upper edge only survive. b) w: 0.30 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.53, fragmentary.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- First century A.D. lapidary capitals: from top of block, l.1, 0.165-0.255; l.2, 0.275-0.36. Lettering: 0.13.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near Church II. Seen by Romanelli and since lost.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 130. 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:
- Previous publications
ab
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<num
value="9"
>
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
at
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
l
</expan>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
oti
<orig
>
co
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
<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"
/>
<num
>
VII
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
c a
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
a.[·· ? ··?holding tribunician power] for the ninth time, father of the country, consul [·· ? ··]
b. [·· ? ··]seven times [·· ? ··](but the figure may be incomplete) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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