551. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Part of a panel of white marble (w: 0.95 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.03, lower edge only) consisting of a pilaster, reversed and inscribed longitudinally.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century lapidary capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.07; ll. 3-4, 0.08.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries (lettering.)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Chalcidicum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- now in the Theatre.
- 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="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
iam
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
runt
ded
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
icauerunt
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
aug
</supplied>
ur
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
p
</unclear>
ro
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
prae
</supplied>
tor
<expan>
<abbr>
desig
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
natus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atus
</ex>
pr
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
o
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aetore
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
4, p̣ro: tro: less probably, tro[... ]. There is a long space between this and the preceding word.
Translation:
[·· ? ··](l.2)they dedicated [·· ? ··] augur pro[·· ? ··] praetor designate, propraetorian legate [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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