616. Fragments
- Description:
- Three blocks of compact grey limestone, possibly from the same inscription. a) w: 0.77 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.53. b) and c) Two adjacent blocks: b) w: 0.70 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.51; c) w: 0.84 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- a) Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.09-0.19; to bottom, 0.50. b) Lapidary capitals 0.11; c) Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.15-0.26; to bottom, 0.50.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- a) and c) are on the sea shore, West of the Temple of Neptune, b) is lost.
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 134 R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, I (l), block c) only. 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"
>
<note>
Block a)
</note>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
L
</supplied>
epcitani
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<note>
Blocks b) and c)
</note>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ito
</ex>
Caesernio
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians [·· ? ··]
(b. and c) To Titus Caesernius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.13)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.14)
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