580. Fragmentarry ?building inscription
- Description:
- The right-hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.47 x h: 0.57 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face. There is a formal spray incised, below the text.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.06.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 22.1.27. 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
uria
ad
squa
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
lorem
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
n
splendorem
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
praeses
proui
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nciae
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Tripolitanae
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
coluit
dedicauit
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
didit
uoluptati
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the meeting-house of the city-council [?fallen] into a damaged condition [·· ? ··?restored] to splendour [·· ? ··] the governor of the province [of Tripolitania·· ? ··] he concerned himself with and dedicated [·· ? ··] to pleasure.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.25)
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