639. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Fragment of a rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.39; height incomplete) of compact brown limestone,
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.29 x h: 0.39; height incomplete).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.045
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Gasr esc-Sciaddad. Found at the foot of this mausoleum which is in the zone of mausolea East of the city.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
fili
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
I
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
extentmax="7"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Coscon
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
a
Regi
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
na
mater
<lb
n="4"
/>
ex
permissu
<lb
n="5"
/>
ordinis
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of a son [·· ? ··]; Cosconia Regina his mother with permission of the city council.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.16)
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