365. Fragment of ?dedication
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.57 x h: 0.52; depth unknown.) of compact grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: from top of block: l. 1, 0.025-0.09; l. 27 0.125-0.195; to bottom of block, 0.52.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, built into the outer North East face of the apse of Church II.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:42. 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="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Trai
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
an
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Lepcita
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ni
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Trajan (case unknown) [·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The material and style of lettering are likely to be later than Hadrian.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.16)
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