783. Fragmentary testamentary inscription
- Description:
- Part of a panel of marble, cream mottled with grey and purple (w: 0.34 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.01, no edges surviving). There are a number of other fragments, containing odd letters only, of the same distinctive marble, doubtless from the same panel.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- l. 1 (capitals), decapitated; l. 2, Rustic capitals, 0.045.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Street from the Arch of Trajan to the Theatre (Rel. Scav. 8.11.30)
- 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="character"
/>
<orig
>
A
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
est
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="undefined"
>
m
</unclear>
ento
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] in accordance with the will [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)
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