284. Dedication to the Genius of Lepcis
- Description:
- The right-hand face (w: 0.97 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of 644.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- Mid-third to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering, titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South side.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Reports and Monographs of the Department of Antiquities in Tripolitania, Tripoli, vol. I, 1948, II: 30. 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Genio
<lb
n="2"
/>
coloniae
Vlpiae
Traianae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ustae
</ex>
Fidelis
<lb
n="3"
/>
Septimiae
Saloninae
Lepcis Magnae
<lb
n="4"
/>
Lepcitani
deuoti
</ab>
Translation:
To the Genius of the colony Ulpia Traiana Augusta Faithful Septimia Salonina Lepcis Magna; the people of Lepcis, devoted to it (set this up).
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1535 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 335)
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