708. Fragment

Description:
Block (w: 0.68 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.51) of coarse grey limestone, inscribed on one face. There is a rectangular cut-away at the left end of the face.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.09-0.08. 
Date:
First to third centuries (nomenclature)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
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) 
L(ucius) Granius
Sollers Pau-
lianus Q(uinti) f(ilius) fecit
LGRANIVS
SOLLERSPAV
LIANVSQFFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Granius
<lb n="2" />
Sollers
Pau
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
lianus
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

Lucius Granius Sollers Paulianus, son of Quintus, had (this) made.

Commentary:

ll. 1-3. L. Granius Sollers Paulianus. Also in 642, ll. 1-3.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.14)

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