585. Fragmentary ?votive text
- Description:
- Worn fragment from the bottom left-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.04).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Capitals, probably third century A.D.: ll. 1, 1-2, 0.035; l. 3, 0.015.
- Date:
- Probably third century 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="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
cianus
<expan>
<abbr>
mil
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
es
</ex>
c
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ohortis
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
tari
Valeri
P
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
uot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
um
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
soluit
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··]cianus soldier of cohort [·· ? ··] of Valerius P[·· ? ··] paid his vow.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.33)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.12)
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