800. Greek mason's marks
- Description:
- White Pentelic marble lotus-and-acanthus capitals of the engaged order.
- Text:
- Mason's marks inscribed on the under surfaces of the capitals. k., recorded by Romanelli, is no longer visible.
- Letters:
- 0.06-0.11.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica; In the gallery which flanks it to the East.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 113, n. 1. nos. a), b), j) and k). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, IX:803. 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)
abcdefghijklmn
abcdefghijklmn
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἀπ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἀριστο
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἀρισ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τοφ
</supplied>
ῶντος
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
ε
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
π
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="e"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Εὐ
<unclear
reason=""
>
π
</unclear>
ρ
<div
type="textpart"
n="f"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Εὐφ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="g"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
π
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="h"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
</ab>
σι
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="i"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
</ab>
σι
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="j"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Σωτη
<div
type="textpart"
n="k"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
<orig
>
</app>
υζη
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="l"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
επ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
</ab>
α
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="m"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
ευ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart"
n="n"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
</ab>
ω
</orig>
The restoration of (a), (b), (j) and (k) to form a single text (so SEG IX, 803) has no justification whatever.
Translation:
(a) Ap[·· ? ··]
(b) Aristo[·· ? ··]
(c) Aristophantos
(d) Ep[·· ? ··]
(e) Eupr( ?)
(f) Euph[·· ? ··]
(g) P[·· ? ··]
(h) Si( ?)
(i)Si( ?)
(j) Sote(?r)
(k) [·· ? ··]YZH
Commentary:
No comment.
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