791. Panel fragments
- Description:
- Fragments of two similar marble panels, each inscribed between horizontal lines and differing only in thickness and in the grain of the marble. a) w: 0.21 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.05, possibly from upper edge. b) w: 0.16 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving. c) w: 0.38 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving. d) w: 0.24 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving.
- Text:
- Each inscribed between horizontal lines.
- Letters:
- Mannered lapidary capitals, probably third century: 0.08.
- Date:
- Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Street from the Chalcidicum to the Hadrianic Baths; a) - c) found in the street. (Rel. Scav. 23.11.31); Forum Vetus; d) found in Church II
- 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)
abcd
abcd
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
lau
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
t
pi
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
bo
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
b
et
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
pec
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
unia
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
(a-c) not usefully translatable; (d)[·· ? ··] money (case unknown) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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