687. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Upper part of a rectangular marble base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.33 x d: 0.33; measurements incomplete).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, 0.30). The first word is cut above the die.
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.
- 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="1"
/>
Calliepi
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublio
</ex>
Cornelio
<lb
n="3"
/>
<orig
>
s
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
aec
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, Calliepi: or Galliepi.
Translation:
(In honour) of Calliepus. To Publius Cornelius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1525 Lastre)
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