280. Dedication to the Genius of Lepcis
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.91 x h: 1.53 x d: 0.04).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: ll. 1- 2, 0.095; l. 3, 0.08.
- Date:
- Probably second to mid-third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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"
/>
Genio
<expan>
<abbr>
col
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oniae
</ex>
Lepcis
<lb
n="2"
/>
Magna
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Lepcitani
publice
Translation:
To the Genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna; the Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 272)
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