800. Greek mason's marks

Description:
White Pentelic marble lotus-and-acanthus capitals of the engaged order. 
Text:
Mason's marks inscribed on the under surfaces of the capitals. k., recorded by Romanelli, is no longer visible. 
Letters:
0.06-0.11. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica; In the gallery which flanks it to the East. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 113, n. 1. nos. a), b), j) and k). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, IX:803. 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) 
a
Ἀπ[·· ? ··]
b
Ἀριστο[·· ? ··]
c
Ἀρισ[τοφ]ῶντος
d
ΕΠ̣[·· ? ··]
e
Εὐπ̣ρ
f
Εὐφ[·· ? ··]
g
Π̣[·· ? ··]
h
ΣΙ
i
ΣΙ
j
Σωτη
k
[·· ? ··]ΥΖΗ
l
ΕΠ[··]Α
m
ΕΥ[·· ? ··]
n
[·· ? ··]Ω
a
ΑΠ[·· ? ··]
b
ΑΡΙΣΤΟ[·· ? ··]
c
ΑΡΙΣ[····]ΩΝΤΟΣ
d
Ε·[·· ? ··]
e
ΕΥ·Ρ
f
ΕΥΦ[·· ? ··]
g
·[·· ? ··]
h
ΣΙ
i
ΣΙ
j
ΣΩΤΗ
k
[·· ? ··]ΥΖΗ
l
ΕΠ[··]Α
m
ΕΥ[·· ? ··]
n
[·· ? ··]Ω
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀπ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀριστο
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀρισ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοφ
</supplied>
ῶντος
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
ε
<unclear reason="" >
π
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Εὐ
<unclear reason="" >
π
</unclear>
ρ
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="f" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Εὐφ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="g" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
π
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="h" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
σι
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
σι
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="j" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Σωτη
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="k" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<orig >
υζη
</orig>
</app>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="l" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
επ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
α
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="m" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
ευ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="n" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ω
</orig>
</ab>
</div>

The restoration of (a), (b), (j) and (k) to form a single text (so SEG IX, 803) has no justification whatever.

Translation:

(a) Ap[·· ? ··]

(b) Aristo[·· ? ··]

(c) Aristophantos

(d) Ep[·· ? ··]

(e) Eupr( ?)

(f) Euph[·· ? ··]

(g) P[·· ? ··]

(h) Si( ?)

(i)Si( ?)

(j) Sote(?r)

(k) [·· ? ··]YZH

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.34)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.34)

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