493. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper left corner of a marble panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.03).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: l.1, 0.10; l.2, 0.09.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
I
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ar
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
Anton
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
in
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Emperor Caesar [·· ? ··] Antoninus [·· ? ··] (case unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.12)
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