746. Fragment

Description:
Block (w: 0.24 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.41) of rather coarse grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.70 x h: 0.31). 
Letters:
Lettering: l. 1 (lapidary capitals), 0.085; ll. 2-4 (irregular capitals), 0.04. 
Date:
First to second century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Road near Lepcis; Beside an ancient cistern. Seen by Kallenberg (CIL VIII, 23); probably removed to Tripoli in the XIX century by the British Consul, on the site of whose garden (now the Uaddan Hotel) it was re-discovered 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:23 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) 
[L(ucius)] Tettius Ẹu-
[tychus ·· 6-7··]ṃ ṣib[i] et
[·· c. 13··]ṭice uxori
[cura L(uci) T]etti C̣ọmi lib(erti)
[··]TETTIVS·V
[········· 6-7··]··IB[··]ET
[·· c. 13··]·ICEVXORI
[·········]ETTI··MILIB
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
Tettius
<unclear reason="" >
E
</unclear>
u
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
tychus
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" extentmax="7" />
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
ib
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
et
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
ice
uxori
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
cura
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
T
</supplied>
etti
<unclear reason="" >
Co
</unclear>
mi
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
erti
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[ Lucius ] Tettius Eutychus [had this made] for himself and for [·· ? ··]tica his wife; [work overseen by Lucius] Tettius Comus, freedman.

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. L. Tettius Eutychus. Also in 314, l. 1.

l. 4. L. Tettius Comus. Also in 314, l. 3

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 680 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 680 Leica)

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