494. Fragments
- Description:
- Three fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.24, top left-hand corner, w: 0.11 x h: 0.17, righthand edge, and w: 0.18 x h: 0.14, bottom edge).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a strongly moulded border.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.085: last line, 0.065.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 13.1.28 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<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"
/>
m
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
d
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Emperor [Caesar·· ? ··](case unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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