721. Fragmentary building inscription for a funerary monument

Description:
No description. 
Text:
No description. 
Letters:
No description 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (nomenclature)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: seen and described by several travellers between 1803 and 1845; since lost. Not seen again 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:21 and p.979; =10995. 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:
Previous publications. 
[·· ? ··]s P(ubli) Lucreti Rogatiani fil(ius)
[·· ? ·· monumentum] quod opere signino pater
[·· ? ·· f]ecerat sibi posterisq(ue) suis
[·· ? ·· restit]uit et a fundamento erexit
5 [·· ? ·· ex] (sestertiis) LXXX milib(us) n(ummum)
[·· ? ··]SPLVCRETIROGATIANIFIL
[·· ? ·············]QVODOPERESIGNINOPATER
[·· ? ····]ECERATSIBIPOSTERISQSVIS
[·· ? ·········]VITETAFVNDAMENTOEREXIT
5[·· ? ·····] sestertius LXXXMILIBN
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ubli
</ex>
</expan>
Lucreti
Rogatiani
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
ius
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
monumentum
</supplied>
quod
opere
signino
pater
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
f
</supplied>
ecerat
sibi
<expan>
<abbr>
posterisq
</abbr>
<ex>
ue
</ex>
</expan>
suis
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
restit
</supplied>
uit
et
a
fundamento
erexit
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ex
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertiis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="80" >
LXXX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
milib
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ummum
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··]s, son of Publius Lucretius Rogatianus [·· ? ··] the [monument] in opus signinum which his father [·· ? ··] had made for himself and his descendants [·· ? ··] he restored and erected from the foundations [·· ? ··] at a cost of eighty thousand sesterces.

Commentary:

l. 1. P. Lucretius Rogatianus. See also 720, ll. 5-6.

Photographs:
none.

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