502. Fragment

Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.39 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.035, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.13. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus 
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) 
[·· ? ··] [c]o(n-)s(ul-) IIII p̣ṛ[oco(n-)s(ul-) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] II [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][··]OSIIII··[········ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]II[·· ? ··]
<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>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
pr
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
oco
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, pr: or p(at) p(atriae)

Translation:

[·· ? ··]consul for the fourth time, pr[?oconsul·· ? ··] two [·· ? ··] (cases of nouns unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.36)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.36)

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