553. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.64 x h: 051) of compact grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals; from the top of block; l. 1.0.015-0.08; l. 2, 0.11-0.18; l. 3, 0.21-0.28; to bottom, 0.51.
- Date:
- First to second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, built into the outer North East face of the apse of Church II.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:42. 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"
>
adlectus
</supplied>
inter
tribu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nicios
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ciuium
suor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
um
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pecunia
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
ua
posuit
Translation:
[·· ? ··promoted] to be of tribunician status [·· ? ··], of his fellow-citizens [·· ? ··] he set this up at his own [expense].
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.16)
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