661. Dedication
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.47 c. 0.50) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face; of the same form as 326, 327, 333, 337, 340.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: l. 1, 0.06; l. 2, 0.05.
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Liber Pater, W of the Byzantine Wall. The upper right-hand corner is now missing.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ammica
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
ri
</app>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Rucem
fratri
</ab>
1, The letters RI now missing are read from the Superintendency photograph
Translation:
? To Ammicar Rucem, his brother, ( or) Rucem to his brother, Ammicar.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.29)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 946)
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