Series of quarry-marksJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Series of quarry-marks on blocks or panels:
a)-e) of Phrygian marble (pavonazzetto); and f)-l) of Numidian marble (giallo antico).
a) On the rough surviving flange (0.430.140.59) of a block, from which veneer panels have been sawn horizontally.
b) On the rough edge (0.950.08) of a block, from which veneer panels have been sawn both horizontally and vertically, at right-angles to the inscribed face.
c) On the reverse face of a fragment (0.150.140.025) of a panel.
d) Two fragments (0.380.150.025
and 0.330.230.025) both probably from the same block, and both from the reverse face of a fluted pilaster.
e) Fragment (0.210.430.035) from the reverse face of the border of a moulded panel. There are two texts, the one cut upside-down to the other.
f) On the reverse face of a fragment (0.260.130.02) of a panel.
g) On the rough edge of a fragment of a panel.
h) On the reverse face of a fragment (0.120.1950.03) of a panel.
j) On the reverse face of a fragment (0.130.160.02) of a panel
k) On the reverse face of a fragment (0.230.390.05) of a panel.
l) Fragment recorded by Bartoccini (MS notes).
Description of Text
Roughly incised on undressed surfaces.
Description of Letters
a) (truncated): 0.05.
b) (truncated): 0.04.
c) 0.07.
d) 0.035-0.045.
e) 0.08-0.10 and
0.04-0.055.
f) 0.035-0.05.
g) 0.03.
h) 0.03.
j) 0.05.
k) 0.04.
Date
A.D. 213
(reign)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Hadrianic Baths, in the West Gymnasium (a, b);
found in the Hadrianic Baths (c, d, e); findspot unrecorded (f, g, h, j, l);
k. found in the Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater
(Rel. Scav. 18.3.34).
Unknown
Lepcis Museum.
Bibliography
, 95.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
Cels
ImperatoreCaesareIIIIetBalbinoconsulibusratione
fru
isubcurasubcuraHesperii
libertiprocuratorisprocuratorisex
IIIconsule
AugustoconsuleI
locoIIp
essubcuraprocuratoris f
ERVA
ERlibertiprocuratoris
NEQVADOXXXVI
ITIANA
Apparatus
See Cagnat, < Cours d'Epigraphie Latine> , 335.
213.
Translation
a Celsus /a case unknown
b When emperor Caesar was consul for the fourth time with Balbinus, with the ?account
c not usefully translatable.
d.1 under the care under the care of Hesperius ; d.2of a freedman and procurator procurator case unknown. from