268. Dedication to C(a)elestis
- Description:
- Wall of a rock-cut terrace.
- Text:
- Rock- cut inscription (l.1, length 3.25) on the wall. Since destroyed.
- Letters:
- Lettering: l.1, 0.12; l. 2, much smaller.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Seen in 1895 on Ras el-Mergheb, incised on the wall of a rock- cut terrace. Since destroyed.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII: 22686: after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, 1903:334 (with sketch); = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22. an inferior reading; Antonelli, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, III:42; Aurigemma, Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1949 n.s III 57. 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:
- Previous publications.
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Celestis
sanctissima
propitia
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
eamus
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
1, Perhaps, Celestis sanctissima propitiam te habeamus, but the reading is hard to reconcile with the careful sketch by Clermont- Ganneau. which is the only reliable source for the text.
2, The second line, in much smaller characters, was very short.
Translation:
Caelestis, most holy, we beg for your favour [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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