- Description:
-
Seven fragments, all probably from the same large marble
panel (0.03 thick). a) w: 0.26 x h: 0.185, no edges
surviving. b) w: 0.195 x h: 0.185, no edges surviving. c)
w: 0.11 x h: 0.25, no edges surviving. d) w: 0.13 x h:
0.17, no edges surviving. e) w: 0.12 x h: 0.18, no edges
surviving. f) w: 0.15 x h: 0.265, last line of text. g) w:
0.19 x h: 0.175, no edges surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12-0.13.
- Date:
- A.D. 117-192. (reign)
- Findspot:
-
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; g. Found behind the Temple of Rome and
Augustus. The exact findspot of the remainder is not
recorded..
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum
- 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)
a
[·· ? ·· Anto]nino [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] [t]rib(unicia) [pot(estate) ·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··] [i]mp(eratori)
Ṿ
[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]T [·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]CI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]IO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
f
g
[·· ? ··]Ọ Lepc̣[itani ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ·······]NINO[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··][··]RIB[······ ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··][··]MP
·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]T[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]CI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]IO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
f
g
[·· ? ··]·LEP·[········ ? ··]
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Anto
</supplied>
nino
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
rib
</abbr>
</expan>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
</expan>
<num
value="5"
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
V
</unclear>
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
t
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="e"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="f"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<div
type="textpart"
n="g"
>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
o
</unclear>
</orig>
Lep
<unclear
reason=""
>
c
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
itani
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
Translation:
( a.)[·· ?
··](to ) Antoninus [·· ? ··]
b.[·· ? ··]holding tribunician [power for the ? time·· ? ··]
c. [·· ? ··] acclaimed victor five
(or up to nine)
times [·· ? ··]
(d, e, f)
not usefully translatable.
g.[·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Presumably Commodus; the style of lettering suggests
Caracalla, but he was never imp. V.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.19)
-
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.5)
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