640. Fragmentary honours
- Description:
- Upper left-hand corner of a rectangular marble base (w: 0.24 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.54),
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, surviving measurements, w: 0.17 x h: 0.49).
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.04.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, in the central area.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:48 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"
/>
Fabricia
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Fabriciu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
filiae
p
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iissimae
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
ex
decret
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
o
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ordinis
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
sua
pe
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
cunia
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
posuit
</supplied>
Translation:
To Fabricia [·· ? ··] Fabricius [·· ? ··] to a most dutiful daughter [·· ? ··] set this up at his own expense in accordance with a decree of the city council.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1553 Leica)
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