497. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel of white marble (w: 0.12 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.015, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.06. Traces of red paint in the letters.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
diui
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ma
</supplied>
rci
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
os
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
t
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of deified Marcus [·· ? ··] declared victor (case unknown) [?times·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.6)
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