888. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Parts of two architrave blocks (h: 0.24)
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Late second to early third century A.D. capitals: 0.055.
- Date:
- Late second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Gasr Tininai (map ref. Q 8500), Both presumably from the temple, a) seems now to be lost
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- b) is now at Beni Ulid.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22666; Petrignani, Il Sahara Tripolitano (Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) Roma, 1923, ill. opp. p. 17. 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:
- a: previous publications; b: transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
x
<expan>
<abbr>
temp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
lum
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
e
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ua
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ecunia
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
itus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
auius
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uirina tribu
</ex>
Capito
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
Io
</app>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
b.1, The letters IO, illustrated by Petrignani, are now lost.
Translation:
(b followed by a) Titus Flavius Capito Io[·· ? ··] of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [built] the temple at his own expense [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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