609. Fragments
- Description:
- Three fragmentary blocks of grey limestone from the steps of the Temple of Liber Pater in the Forum Vetus. a) w: 0.52 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.44. b) w: 0.20 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.30. c) w: 0.30 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.30.
- Text:
- Inscribed; bearing letters which appear to be part of a contemporary inscription.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.11.
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, Temple of Liber Pater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
fla
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
en
sufes
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
m
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ca
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a ) [·· ? ··] flamen (priest), sufete[·· ? ··](in nominative case) (b. and c.) Not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.37)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.38)
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