756. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.43) of compact grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face; the lower edge was probably moulded, and the surface of the left part of the inscribed face has been roughly chiselled back.
- Letters:
- First century lapidary capitals: from top of block; l. 1, 0.01-0.20; l. 2, 0.24-0.40; to bottom, 0.51.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, west of the Byzantine Wall, near the sea-shore.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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="character"
/>
<del>
</del>
<orig
>
TR
</orig>
<orig
>
OL
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<del>
et
</del>
tiu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··](l.2) ? [T]ettiu[s (nominative or accusative)·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.18)
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