814. Fragment
- Description:
- Block of grey limestone (w: 0.55 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.75).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- First century A.D. lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1 (decapitated), 0.02; l. 2, 0.045-0.18; l. 3, 0.20-0.31; to bottom, 0.50.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: re-used as part of an architectural moulding presumably in Forum Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Loose in the Forum Vetus, in the propylaea of the Curia.
- 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
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
d
</unclear>
r
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
cae
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
m
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.10)
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