790a. Fragmentary donation
- Description:
- Block of brown limestone (w: 0.94 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.66) damaged at the left-hand end.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: from the top of the block, l. 1, 0.23-0.31; l. 2, 0.34-0.42.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, on the foreshore below the sea-wall, washed clear 1948-9.
- 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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
u
</orig>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pec
</supplied>
unia
donum
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
edit
</ex>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] ?V [·· ? ··] with (?their own) money he/she/they made a gift.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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