618. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Two fragments (w: 0.41 x h: 0.32 and w: 0.40 x h: 0.17) from the lower part of a large marble panel. The panel was later reversed and re-used, but no part of the secondary text is legible.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. Lapidary capitals: 0.11.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
L
</supplied>
epcitani
pu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
blice
</supplied>
<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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
d
</supplied>
edic
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
au
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a )[·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians publicly [·· ? ··] (b)[·· ? ··] dedicated [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.32)
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