979. Fragment
- Description:
- Three fragments of coarse-grained brown limestone, all probably from the same panel or base, inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata. a) w: 0.23 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.09 . Moulding survives at the left-hand edge and apparently includes the angle of the lower juncture of the ansa with the panel. b) w: 0.27 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.055 . No edges. c) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.055 . Moulding survives below the lettering, at an acute angle to it; the fragment appears to be from the lower part of the right ansa, into which the lettering has encroached.
- Text:
- Inscribed within tabella ansata. Inscribed surface: a) w: 0.23 x h: 0.17; b) w: 0.27 x h: 0.12; c) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals, probably third century: 0.065-0.07.
- Date:
- Probably third century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now in one of the tabernae of the East Portico of the Forum Severianum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.7.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
abc
abc
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
s
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
pa
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
L
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
epc
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
itan
</supplied>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
VA
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
o
</unclear>
ri
patriae
m
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
i
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
singulari
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··] the people of Lepcis case unknown [·· ? ··]
(b) [·· ? ··]?lover of his/her country [·· ? ··]
(c) [·· ? ··]singular (?remarkable: case and number unknown) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
b.2: Perhaps amat]ori patriae, see also 95, 275, 347, 567, 603, and Neo-Punic 32 (= 318).
- Photographs:
- none.
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