781. Fragmentary testamentary inscription
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel (w: 0.40 x h: 0.51, lower edge only survives) of grey marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a narrow border.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.07; ll. 3-5, 0.06.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus (Rel. Scav. 17.12.33)
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ns
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
s
prop
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
testament
</supplied>
o
suo
legauit
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ampliu
</supplied>
s
adiectis
<num
>
II
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
idas
cu
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.3) he/she bequeathed in his/her will [·· ? ··] adding further II [·· ? ··] ? took care [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.27)
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