739. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Two blocks ( a) w: 1.87 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.50 and b) w: 0.33 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.49) of grey limestone, probably from the same inscription.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered capitals. a) from top of block, l. 1, 0.09-0.30; to bottom, 0.51. b) from top of block, l. 1, 0.10-0.30; to bottom, 0.52.
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus; a) Regio III, ins. 1, beside the main street. Severan Arch; b) Regio I, South East of the arch .
- 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Scipione
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
de
</supplied>
dicau
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
it
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··] by (or with ) Scipio. (b) he/she/they dedicated [·· ? ··] (the published text gives a singular.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.27)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.20)
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