765a. ?Gameboard text
- Description:
- Three fragments of a marble panel. a). w: 0.25 x h: 0.225 x d: 0.035 b). w: 0.215 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.037 c). w: 0.73 x h: 0.68 x d: 0.03-0.04 At the left-hand end of ll. 1 and 2, there are two larger circles, the lower of which contains the inscribed figure of a dog; and between ll.2 and 3 there are the inscribed figures of an ostrich and of a horse with a tall plume.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, each letter within an inscribed circle.
- Letters:
- 0.03
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre; Found in the rear Portico, in 1951.
- 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
lla
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
art
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
T
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
ner
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
q
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
u
</supplied>
eris
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
n
</supplied>
escis
</ab>
Translation:
(a. and b)Not usefully translatable.
(c) You cannot win a point; you do not know how to play.
Commentary:
( Probably a tabula lusoria; the text is reconstructed by Caputo as follows: [Nulla[m] t[e]ner[e] [p]art[em] q[u]eris [ludere n]escis )
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2154 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2152 Leica)
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