748. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.04), the surface badly abraded.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Second century capitals: ll. 2-3, 0.03; l. 4, 0.055.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum (Rel. Scav. 14.4. 28)
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ex
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="sestertius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
sestertiis
</ex>
<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="4"
/>
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilibus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ummum
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
e
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ua
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ecunia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
edit
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
uae
coniu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
gi
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
s
Tiberin
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
us
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] gave [?this] at the cost of [·· ? ··] thousand sesterces of his own money [·· ? ··] to his wife [·· ? ··] Tiberin[?us·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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