597. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Fragment of a large bowl of Portasanta marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one edge.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.045.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, in the West gymnasium.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 96. 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"
/>
s
Geta
<expan>
<abbr>
aed
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilis
</ex>
ex
mult
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
is
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Geta, aedile, using the fines [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.24)
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