548. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.20 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. capitals: l.1, 0.05; l.3, 0.042; l.4, 0.029.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (Lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. From the Temple of Magna Mater.
- 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"
/>
<orig
>
on
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
c
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
at
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
p
</supplied>
ro
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aetore
</ex>
di
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ui
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··](l.3) consul [·· ? ··] propraetorian [legate] of the deified [·· ? ··] (case unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.15)
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