730. Fragments
- Description:
- Fragments from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.40 x h: 0.52, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Second century capitals: 0.065.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- 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="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
li
as
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
exornat
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
us
Me
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
ula
a
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
2, An upright precedes the L at the opening of the line, presumably I or T.
4, Merula: Or Medula; but the bowl of the letter is rather narrow for a D.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.2) adorned (case and number unknown) [·· ? ··] Merula (nominative case) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.28)
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