815. Architrave fragments

Description:: Fragments of a marble architrave with egg-and-dart moulding, found dispersed, and now recomposed to give three fragments of text. a+b) w: 1.70 x h: 0.60 c) w: 0.40 x h: 0.08
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: 0.16.
Date:: First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, beside the Severan Temple.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

a+b

[·· ? ··]io a parenti[bus ·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]onco[·· ? ··]

a+b

[·· ? ··]IOAPARENTI[······ ? ··]

[·· ? ··]ONCO[·· ? ··]

<ab>

parenti

bus

</supplied>

</ab>

</div>

<ab>

onco

</ab>

</div>

c.1, Perhaps [·· ? ··c]onco[rdia·· ? ··]

Translation:

a and b. [·· ? ··] by his parents [·· ? ··]

c. (not translatable though possiby from concordia, concord.)

Commentary:

The three fragments have been re-examined since 1951. The two fragments a and b should be taken together: the stones do not make an exact juncture, but the graining of the marble shows that they did in fact adjoin.

a+b) l. 1. Presumably a reference to work undertaken at the expense of Severus and Julia Domna but finished by Caracalla, see also 427, 428 from the Severan basilica. A reconstruction might be sought on the lines of templum et substructio a parentibus coepta.