242. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of a small marble entablature (surviving width, w: 0.90 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.52), slightly concave.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century lapidary capitals: 0.45.
- Date:
- Second century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Oea: The arch of Marcus Aurelius. Found in Tripoli among the debris accumulated within the arch.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle
- 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
Aristonis
c
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] son of Aristo[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Possibly c[·· ? ··] is for "took charge of".
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 674 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 160)
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