797. Fragment, perhaps a ?quarry-mark
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.26 x d: 0.07, no edges surviving), of white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the back of a fluted pilaster.
- Letters:
- Late third century capitals, very roughly incised: 0.055; perhaps a quarry-mark.
- Date:
- Late third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- 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
>
s
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
mper
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··](l.2) ?emperor [·· ? ··] (case and number not known. )
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.10)
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