615a. Fragments
- Description:
- Two fragments probably from the same marble panel. a) w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving. b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Late form of rustic capitals: 0.06.
- Date:
- Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VIII:40, fig. 23 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1948, 18 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
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
ra
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
o
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
atri
qu
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
<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=""
>
p
</unclear>
ub
<unclear
reason=""
>
l
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ic
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
poris
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
re
</supplied>
i
<expan>
<abbr>
pub
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
lice
</ex>
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
a.1, o: Or C or G or Q.
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··](l.2) to a father (or a brother) who[·· ? ··]
(b) [·· ? ··] public [·· ? ··] of the republic [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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