770. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (w: 1.01 x h: 0.51 0.45) of coarse brown limestone. There is a rectangular cut-away, 0.52 long, at the lower left corner.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, now much weathered.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.09; remainder, 0.06-0.07.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the sea wall, beside 612.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Robinson, American Journal of Archaeology 1913, 189; P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133. 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="character"
/>
am
co
<unclear
reason="undefined"
>
l
</unclear>
osson
cum
pan
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
t
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
iae
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
LI
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
/>
de
su
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pecunia
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] a colossos with [·· ? ··] with his own money [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.32)
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