488. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.51 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.97) of compact grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.13-0.32; to bottom, 0.50.
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, west of the Byzantine Wall, near the sea-shore.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 132. 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<num
value="6"
>
VI
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] consul for the sixth time [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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