502. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.39 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.035, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.13.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
pr
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
oco
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</supplied>
ul
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, pr: or p(at) p(atriae)
Translation:
[·· ? ··]consul for the fourth time, pr[?oconsul·· ? ··] two [·· ? ··] (cases of nouns unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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