619. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower right-hand corner of a panel of yellow and white marble (w: 0.26 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.08.
- Date:
- Third century A.D (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Lepcitani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pu
</supplied>
blice
Translation:
[·· ? ··the Lepcitanians] publicly.
Commentary:
There are several other more or less fragmentary examples of this formula from the ends of monumental inscriptions cut in Rustic capitals. These belong probably to some of the many late second to early third century imperial dedications found at Lepcis, and they are not here listed separately.
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