613. Fragment
- Description:
- Upper right-hand corner of a block (w: 0.38 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.33) of grey limestone, possibly from an architrave.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lettering: l. 1 (lapidary capitals), 0.065; remainder (Rustic capitals), l. 2, 0.06; l. 3, 0.055.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre, re-used in one of the piers of the West dressing room.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
i
ordo
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
am
decreuit
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
honore
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
conten
</supplied>
tus
pecuniam
rem
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
isit
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the city council [·· ? ··] decreed [·· ? ··] satisfied with the honour he remitted the expense [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1654 Leica)
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