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794. Series of quarry-marks

Description:: Series of quarry-marks on blocks or panels: a)-e) of Phrygian marble (pavonazzetto); and f)-l) of Numidian marble (giallo antico). a) On the rough surviving flange (w: 0.43 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.59) of a block, from which veneer panels have been sawn horizontally. b) On the rough edge (w: 0.95 x h: 0.08) of a block, from which veneer panels have been sawn both horizontally and vertically, at right-angles to the inscribed face. c) On the reverse face of a fragment (w: 0.15 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.025) of a panel. d) Two fragments (w: 0.38 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.025 and w: 0.33 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.025) both probably from the same block, and both from the reverse face of a fluted pilaster. e) Fragment (w: 0.21 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.035) from the reverse face of the border of a moulded panel. There are two texts, the one cut upside-down to the other. f) On the reverse face of a fragment (w: 0.26 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.02) of a panel. g) On the rough edge of a fragment of a panel. h) On the reverse face of a fragment (w: 0.12 x h: 0.195 x d: 0.03) of a panel. j) On the reverse face of a fragment (w: 0.13 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.02) of a panel k) On the reverse face of a fragment (w: 0.23 x h: 0.39 x d: 0.05) of a panel. l) Fragment recorded by Bartoccini (MS notes).
Text:: Roughly incised on undressed surfaces.
Letters:: a) (truncated): 0.05. b) (truncated): 0.04. c) 0.07. d) 0.035-0.045. e) 0.08-0.10 and 0.04-0.055. f) 0.035-0.05. g) 0.03. h) 0.03. j) 0.05. k) 0.04.
Date:: A.D. 213 (reign)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, in the West Gymnasium (a, b); found in the Hadrianic Baths (c, d, e); findspot unrecorded (f, g, h, j, l); k. found in the Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater (Rel. Scav. 18.3.34).
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Lepcis Museum.
Bibliography:: R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 95. 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)

[·· ? ··] Ceḷs[·· ? ··]

[Imp(eratore)

Ca]ẹṣ[a]re IIII et Balbino co(n)s(ulibus) ratione [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] FRV [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]i sub cura [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· s]ub cura Hesp[erii ·· ? ··]
[---]

[·· ? ··] lib(erti) proc(uratoris) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] proc(uratoris) ex [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] III co(n)s(ule) [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ·· Au]g(usto) co(n)s(ule) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]I

[·· ? ··] loc(o) II p[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]es sub c[ura ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· p]roc(uratoris) f[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] ER [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] VA [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] ER [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] lib(erti) pr[oc(uratoris) ·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] NEQVADO [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] XXXVI [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··] ỊTỊANA [·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]CE·S[·· ? ··]

[····

···]··[··]REIIIIETBALBINOCOSRATIONE[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]FRV[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]ISVBCVRA[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]VBCVRAHESP[······· ? ··]
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[·· ? ··]LIBPROC[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PROCEX[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]IIICOS[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ·····]GCOS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]I

[·· ? ··]LOCIIP[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]ESSVBC[······ ? ··]
[·· ? ····]ROCF[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]ER[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VA[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]ER[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]LIBPR[·············· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]NEQVADO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]XXXVI[·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··]·T·ANA[·· ? ··]

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See Cagnat, < Cours d'Epigraphie Latine> , 335.

213.

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] Celsus /a [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

(b) When emperor Caesar was consul for the fourth time with Balbinus, with the ?account [·· ? ··]

(d.1) [·· ? ··] under the care [·· ? ··] under the care of Hesperius [·· ? ··]; (d.2) [·· ? ··] (of) a freedman and procurator [·· ? ··] procurator (case unknown.) from [·· ? ··]

(e) [·· ? ··]III consul [·· ? ··] Augustus, consul [·· ? ··]

(f) [·· ? ··] ? in place II[·· ? ··]

(g) [·· ? ··]under the care [·· ? ··] procurator [·· ? ··]

(j)[·· ? ··](l.2 ) freedman procurator [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

(k) [·· ? ··](l.2) thirty-six (up to thirty-nine)

(l)not usefully translatable.