766. Acclamation
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.68 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.56) of grey limestone. There is a formal spray roughly incised at either end of l.1.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, within a narrow moulded border.
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals, 0.08-0.10
- Date:
- Third to fourth century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus; Regio III, ins.6, beside the .
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Bonis
bene
<lb
n="2"
/>
quia
mali
non
sunt
Translation:
For the good (?may) it be well, since they are not bad.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 580)
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