490. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Five damaged architrave blocks of compact grey limestone with a uniform moulding.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.27.
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Above Punic Market (Reg. V, ins. 4-5), from the monumental inscription on the exterior of the octagonal limestone market building.
- 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)
abcde
abcde
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
x
</orig>
<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"
/>
<orig
>
e
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
c
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
ae
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="e"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
di
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
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Translation:
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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