746. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.24 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.41) of rather coarse grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.70 x h: 0.31).
- Letters:
- Lettering: l. 1 (lapidary capitals), 0.085; ll. 2-4 (irregular capitals), 0.04.
- Date:
- First to second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Road near Lepcis; Beside an ancient cistern. Seen by Kallenberg (CIL VIII, 23); probably removed to Tripoli in the XIX century by the British Consul, on the site of whose garden (now the Uaddan Hotel) it was re-discovered
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:23 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucius
</ex>
Tettius
<unclear
reason=""
>
E
</unclear>
u
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
tychus
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
extentmax="7"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
<unclear
reason=""
>
s
</unclear>
ib
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
et
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="13"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
t
</unclear>
ice
uxori
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
cura
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
T
</supplied>
etti
<unclear
reason=""
>
Co
</unclear>
mi
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erti
</ex>
Translation:
[ Lucius ] Tettius Eutychus [had this made] for himself and for [·· ? ··]tica his wife; [work overseen by Lucius] Tettius Comus, freedman.
Commentary:
ll. 1-2. L. Tettius Eutychus. Also in 314, l. 1.
l. 4. L. Tettius Comus. Also in 314, l. 3
Photographs:
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