778. Panel fragments
- Description:
- Two fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.50 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.05 and w: 0.26 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
u
</supplied>
etustate
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
R
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
conla
</supplied>
bsum
res
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
tituit
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··] with age [·· ? ··] ; (b) he/she/they restored the collapsed [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1680 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.9)
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