383. Fragment
- Description:
- Part of a marble panel (w: 0.43 x h: 0.34 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: 0.16.
- Date:
- A.D. 177-192. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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"
/>
<del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<del>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</del>
r
</unclear>
Pius
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··Germanicus (or Sarmaticus)] Pius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The lettering appears to be second century and the inscription therefore of Commodus.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)
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