698. Fragment

Description:
Marble architrave block (w: 0.99 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.30) with moulding above, much weathered. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face.  
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. capitals (drilled): 0.075. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose in Church II. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra, VIII:39. 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) 
[·· ? ·· o]rnator simul mortalitati [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] ginae Felyssam uxori obsequentissim[ae ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]RNATORSIMVLMORTALITATI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]GINAEFELYSSAMVXORIOBSEQVENTISSIM[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
rnator
simul
mortalitat
<app type="previouslyread" >
i
</app>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
gin
</app>
ae
Felyssam
uxori
obsequentissim
<supplied reason="lost" >
ae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, The underlined letters at the end of l. 1 and the beginning of l. 2 were read by Bartoccini in 1931 but are no longer visible.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] adorner at the same time to ( or of) ?mankind [·· ? ··] to [·· ? ··]gina Felyssan his most obedient wife.

Commentary:

l. 2. Felyssam. For this name cf. Phelyssam in 615, l. 3 and Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940; VIII:40.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.23)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.23)

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