700. Testamentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.96 x d: 0.52) of rather coarse grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.70).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals with Rustic forms (probably third century A.D.): av. 0.03-0.035.
- Date:
- Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Regio V, ins. 6, opposite the South East entrance to the Market.
- 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"
/>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="7"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="8"
/>
et
Flau
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iu
</supplied>
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ca
</supplied>
<lb
n="9"
type="worddiv"
/>
pito
statuas
<lb
n="10"
/>
quatuor
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
extentmax="3"
/>
<lb
n="11"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="denarius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
denarios
</ex>
<num
value="8000"
>
VIII
</num>
ad
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iec
</supplied>
tis
<lb
n="12"
/>
amplius
d
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<lb
n="13"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
uo
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="denarius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
denariis
</ex>
<num
value="5000"
>
ↀ V
</num>
he
<lb
n="14"
type="worddiv"
/>
r
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
des
posu
<lb
n="15"
type="worddiv"
/>
erunt
11, i.e. denarios octo milia.
13, i.e. denariis mille quinque.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] and Flavius Capito, his heirs, set up four statues at a cost of eight thousand denarii, adding one thousand five hundred denarii of their own.
Commentary:
ll. 8-9. Flauius Capito. Perhaps also in 701.
Photographs:
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