627. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:
Fragment of a marble base (w: 0.18 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.11, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third to fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.045. 
Date:
Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
[·· ? ··] decr(eto) s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DECRSO[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
decr
</abbr>
<ex>
eto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] by decree of the most splendid city council [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.9)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.9)

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