796. Fragment, perhaps a ?quarry-mark
- Description:
- Fragment of Numidian marble (w: 0.14 x h: 0.17, no edges surviving), part of a fluted pilaster, re-used.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the reverse face. Just possibly a quarry-mark, although the inscribed surface has been dressed.
- Letters:
- Roughly incised capitals: 0.02.
- Date:
- Perhaps 191 A.D. (consuls)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths (Rel. Scav. 5.7.26
- 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"
/>
<orig
>
EBRADVV
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
it
Calist
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, Possibly Pedone Bradua co(n)s(ulibus), 191. Above l. 1 is a rough surface, which may represent an erased line.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] ?when Pedo and Bradua [were consuls·· ? ··] Calist[·· ? ··] (case of final name not known.)
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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