728. Fragments

Description:
Seven fragments, of which a) and d) - g) certainly, and b) and c) probably, belong to the some white marble panel (0.025 thick), inscribed within a moulded border. a) w: 0.21 x h: 0.15, no edges surviving. b) w: 0.17 x h: 0.135, no edges surviving. c) w: 0.14 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving. d) w: 0.21 x h: 0.125, no edges surviving. e) w: 0.95 x h: 0.95, no edges surviving. f) w: 0.16 x h: 0.13, lower border. g) w: 0.27 x h: 0.15, lower border. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
a-d), Second century lapidary capitals, 0.10; e) - g), Second century capitals, 0.065.  
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, III (1954) This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a
[·· ? ··]ṛịḅ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]alis Ru[·· ? ··]
b
[---]
2 [·· ? ··] po[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ·· M]arciu[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··] Quir(ina tribu) V[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]olea[·· ? ··]
f
[·· ? ··] item [·· ? ··]
g
[·· ? ··]a marmori[bus ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]···[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ALISRV[·· ? ··]
b
[---]
2[·· ? ··]PO[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ····]ARCIV[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]QVIRV[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]OLEA[·· ? ··]
f
[·· ? ··]ITEM[·· ? ··]
g
[·· ? ··]AMARMORI[······ ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
rib
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
alis
Ru
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
po
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
M
</supplied>
arciu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Quir
</abbr>
<ex>
ina tribu
</ex>
</expan>
V
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
olea
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="f" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
item
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="g" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
a
marmori
<supplied reason="lost" >
bus
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a)[·· ? ··](l.2) ? Rufus[·· ? ··]

(b) [·· ? ··] ?power [·· ? ··]

(c-d)[·· ? ··] Marcius [·· ? ·· ·· ? ··] of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [·· ? ··]

(f) [·· ? ··] likewise [·· ? ··]

(g) [·· ? ··] with marbles [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.13)

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