685. Fragments

Description:
Two inscribed blocks of compact grey limestone, with architrave moulding below and sockets for transverse timbers (w: 0.26 x h: 0.26) on the lower rear face; from a monumental inscription. a) w: 0.77 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.52 b) w: 0.74 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.52  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals, 0.125. Lapidary capitals, 0.14. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V, ins. 2: a) built into the house at the W angle, opposite the Theatre. b) loose near-by. 
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) 
a
[·· ? ·· Co]rnelius F[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] R(- - -) M(- - -) C(- - -)
a
[·· ? ·····]RNELIVSF[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]R(- - -)M(- - -)C(- - -)
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Co
</supplied>
rnelius
F
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<abbr>
R
</abbr>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··Co]rnelius F[·· ? ··] (b) not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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