694. Fragment

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.60 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.76). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face with an honorary inscription, the greater part of the text of which has later been erased to make way for that of 529. a) Above the die: l. 1, on the upper edge within a tabella ansata, l. 2, on the upper cyma moulding between formal sprays. b) On the face, within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.53 x h: 0.79). Text completely erased. c) Vertically, on the two side-margins of the die; there are formal sprays between the words. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.035-0.04. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East side.  
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
D〚[·· c. 6··]〛
〚 [·· c. 11··] 〛
b
(Text completely erased.)
cl

(Left margin.)

[ - - - ]thi Presbyti
r

(Right margin.)

Geronti Euphrasi
a
D〚[·· c. 6··]〛
〚[·· c. 11··]〛
b
(Text completely erased.)
cl

(Left margin.)

[ - - - ]THIPRESBYTI
r

(Right margin.)

GERONTIEVPHRASI
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
D
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" precision="circa" />
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="11" unit="character" precision="circa" />
</del>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<note>
Text completely erased.
</note>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<div type="textpart" n="l" >
<note>
Left margin.
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" extentmax="3" />
thi
Presbyti
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="r" >
<note>
Right margin.
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Geronti
Euphrasi
</ab>
</div>
</div>

Translation:

(a and b) not usefully translatable. (c) of [·· ? ··] Presbytus, Gerontius Euphrasius.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 19bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 19bis)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741bis)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 85bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 85bis)

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