431. Fragmentary dedication?
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.85, no edges surviving) of white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12-0.13.
- Date:
- Perhaps Severan (lettering and monumental character)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. Found in the Temple of Liber Pater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 27.5.35. 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"
/>
onin
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
rus
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
i
</unclear>
s
et
or
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
rfic
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
it
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, Perhaps [Ant]onin[·· ? ··]?
Translation:
(It is not usefully translatable.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.26)
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