775. Fragmentary dedication
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.87 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.48) of grey limestone from the left part of a monumental inscription.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Second century lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.125; l. 2, 0.11.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, found built into a late wall blocking the West entrance to the Palaestra.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Loose near the West entrance to the Palestra.
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 93. 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"
/>
dedica
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
u
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
opus
ther
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
marum
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
he/she/they dedicated [·· ? ··] the structure of the Baths [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1628 Leica)
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