483. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.53 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.11) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face with moulding at top and bottom.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: from top of block; l.1, 0.085- 0.185; l.2, 0.225-0.335; l.3, 0.35-0.425; to bottom, 0.59.
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Homs; found re-used in a building. (Bartoccini MS notes).
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Caesaris
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
udialisqu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
dia
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilia
</ex>
Poli
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
2, : Perhaps ... flamen Claudialis qu...
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of Caesar[·· ? ·· ?Cla]udial [·· ? ··] (probably a reference to a priest of the cult of the emperor Claudius at Rome) [·· ? ··]dia Poli[·· ? ··]daughter of Lucius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.38)
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