235. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Rough block (w: 0.435 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one of the narrow faces.
- Letters:
- Third to fourth century capitals: 0.045.
- Date:
- Third to fourth centuries (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Oea: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
vicv
<unclear
reason=""
>
l
</unclear>
m
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
o
</orig>
<orig
>
e
<unclear
reason=""
>
o
</unclear>
r
</orig>
pontifice
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
o
</unclear>
o
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
t
<unclear
reason=""
>
v
</unclear>
a
<unclear
reason=""
>
et
</unclear>
p
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
o
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
>
rpv
<unclear
reason=""
>
b
</unclear>
ad
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
2, EOR: perhaps eq(uite) R(omano).
Translation:
[·· ? ··] priest (ablative case)[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
There may have been a reference to an eques Romanus (Roman Knight).
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 683 Leica)
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