504. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Two fragments probably from the same marble panel. a) w: 0.65 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.025, from the upper edge. b) w: 0.26 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.025, from the lower edge.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- a) Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.11. b) Lapidary capitals: 0.10.
- Date:
- First 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
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
if
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
ax
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
im
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
po
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
t
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
estate
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
i
</unclear>
n
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
s
</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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
sua
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pecuni
</supplied>
a
fec
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
it
</supplied>
a.2, There may be an intervening line of text, not represented in this fragment.
Translation:
(a. )[·· ? ··] chief [priest], holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]
( b. ) [·· ? ··]he(/she) built this at his(/her) own expense.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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