747. Dedication by Tetia Prima for her family.
- Description:
- Colonnette (diam. 0.28 height 1.78) of grey limestone, capped by a finial.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.18).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.025-0.03.
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (terminology)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; Found on the right bank, north of the present coast road.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 158. 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"
/>
Tetia
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iberta
</ex>
Prima
<lb
n="2"
/>
sibi
et
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucio
</ex>
Tetio
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iberto
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Meiantho
uiro
<lb
n="4"
/>
suo
et
suis
</ab>
Translation:
Tetia Prima, freedwoman of Lucius, (had this made) for herself and for Lucius Tetius Meianthus, freedman of Lucius, her husband, and their family.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 448)
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