808. Panel fragments
- Description:
- Two fragments from a panel of white marble. a) w: 0.19 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.015, from the right edge. b) w: 0.05 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving.
- Text:
- inscribed within an incised border.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals, roughly incised: 0.045-0.05. Traces of red paint in the letters.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus, near the Market.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 16.2.29 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
epon
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
pp
</orig>
cura
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
rum
<orig
>
se
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
st
tp
a
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a)[·· ? ··](l.2) [·· ? ··]with/under the care (ablative ?); (b) not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.23)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.6)
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