832. Christian invocation
- Description:
- One of the cipollino columns of the south side of the Frigidarium of the Hadrianic Baths, about 3.50 above pavement level.
- Text:
- Inscribed. The inscription follows a cross, with a spray above.
- Letters:
- Roughly incised lettering.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths; South side of the Frigidarium
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 (1924-25) 308; P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 120, n. 1; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum IX:806. 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"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
θεω
<unclear
reason=""
>
φ
</unclear>
ορς
1, Θεοτοκω, Bartoccini, is not a possible reading
Translation:
(Cross) Theophor(os)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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