484. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description:
Two blocks of brownish-grey limestone, much damaged. a) w: 1.04 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54, front, back, and upper edge only survive. b) w: 0.30 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.53, fragmentary.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
First century A.D. lapidary capitals: from top of block, l.1, 0.165-0.255; l.2, 0.275-0.36. Lettering: 0.13. 
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near Church II. Seen by Romanelli and since lost. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 130. 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 
a
[·· ? ··] VIIII p(at-) p(atriae) co(n-)s(u-)l [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]oti COỊ[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]VII[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]C̣ ̣Ạ[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]VIIIIPPCOSL[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OTICO·[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]VII[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]···[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="9" >
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
at
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
l
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
oti
<orig >
co
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
<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" />
<num >
VII
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
c a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a.[·· ? ··?holding tribunician power] for the ninth time, father of the country, consul [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··]seven times [·· ? ··](but the figure may be incomplete) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XII.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XII.28)

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