- Description:
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Mason's marks on the under surfaces of the Pentelic white marble locust-and-acanthus capitals of the forum porticoes and of the engaged orders in the East portico and in the tabernae opening off the East portico.
No. i) is no longer visible and has been read from a cast in the Superintendency.
- Text:
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Mason's marks
- Letters:
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0.02-0.11.
- Date:
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No indication
- Findspot:
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Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, the forum-porticoes and of the engaged orders in the East portico and in the tabernae opening off the East portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
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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:
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Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
abcdefghιjkliiimnopqr
[·· ? ··]Ω ΝΕΩΤΕΡΟΥ
[·· ? ··]ΘΕ̣ΟΣΕΝ
stu
ΑΡΤ[·· ? ··]
ΝΕΩ[·· ? ··]
vwxyzaaabacadae
abcdefghιjkliiimnopqr
[·· ? ··]ΩΝΕΩΤΕΡΟΥ
[·· ? ··]Θ·ΟΣΕΝ
stuvwxyzaaabacadae
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Translation:
(a) Of Aimenios
(b) Apol( ?)
(c) Aris( ?)
(d. ) Aris( ?)
(e) Aristo( ?)
(f) Of D[io]s
(g) Herm( ?)
(h. ) Eup( ?)(with superscript EA or ED)
(i) Of Parasios
(j) Pr[·· ? ··]
(k) Pro( ? )
(l i and ii) Of Sas[·· ? ··]nios. Sophanos (and) El[·· ? ··] of Soph(anos?)
(m) Sin( ?)
(n) Soph(?anos)
(o) Sophia( ?)
(p) So[·· ? ··]
(q) Of Charmi(des)
(r) [·· ? ··]o Neoteros (name or the younger) [·· ? ··]theos Er(?)
(s) [·· ? ··]sis
Commentary:
A series of personal names, some clearly in the genitive case, many abbreviated and not certanly identifiable
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXI.5)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 51.XV.26)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 51.II.10)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 51.XIX.30)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 51.VII.38)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXI.5)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.27)
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