615a. Fragments

Description:
Two fragments probably from the same marble panel. a) w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving. b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late form of rustic capitals: 0.06.  
Date:
Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VIII:40, fig. 23 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1948, 18 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) 
a
[·· ? ··]RAỌ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]atri quị[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] p̣ubḷ[ic·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]poris[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· re]i pub(lice) ẹ[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]RA·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ATRIQV·[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]·VB·[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PORIS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]IPVB·[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ra
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
atri
qu
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
ub
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ic
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
poris
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
re
</supplied>
i
<expan>
<abbr>
pub
</abbr>
<ex>
lice
</ex>
</expan>
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

a.1, o: Or C or G or Q.

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··](l.2) to a father (or a brother) who[·· ? ··]

(b) [·· ? ··] public [·· ? ··] of the republic [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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