718. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragmentary inscription on two curved blocks (together w: 0.40 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.37) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.09; l. 2, 0.105.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, lying loose in the East latrine, to which they probably belong.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 82. 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"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
s
</unclear>
ius
La
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
s
et
Irene
lib
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
erta
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
et
Co
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
modus
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, [·· ? ··]sius: Or [·· ? ··]bius.
Translation:
[·· ? ··]sius (or [·· ? ··]bius) La[·· ? ··]s and Irene freedwoman [·· ? ··] and Commodus [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1627 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 248 Lastre)
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