485. Fragments from ?building inscription

Description:
a) Block (w: 1.10 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.46) of grey limestone, much weathered. b1-2-3)Three blocks of limestone: b1) w: 1.01 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.46. b2) w: 0.69 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.17. b3) w: 2.23 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.46.  
Text:
a) Inscribed on one face, from a monumental inscription. b) Inscribed in letters of approximately the same, unusually large size as a) above.  
Letters:
First century A.D. lapidary capitals: a) 0.37. b1) 0.35 b2) 0.35. b3) 0.35. 
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; a) behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, West of the Byzantine Wall. Forum Vetus; b) Described as lying between the forum and the sea. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
b) Lost. Not seen. 
Bibliography:
a) R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923 I(k); P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133. b1) R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923 I(i); P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133. 2) R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923 I(e); Romanelli, P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133. 3) R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923 I(g); P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133. 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:
Previous publications (b) and transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a
[·· ? ·· po]tes[tate ·· ? ··]
b1
[·· ? ··]po[·· ? ··]
2
[·· ? ··] [c]o(n-)s(ul-) [·· ? ··]
3
Herenn[i ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ·····]TES[······· ? ··]
b1
[·· ? ··]PO[·· ? ··]
2
[·· ? ··][··]OS[·· ? ··]
3
HERENN[···· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
po
</supplied>
tes
<supplied reason="lost" >
tate
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<div type="textpart" n="1" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
po
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="2" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
c
</supplied>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="3" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Herenn
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
</div>

Translation:

a.[·· ? ··] holding the power [·· ? ··]

(b. 1) Not usefully translatable.

(b. 2)[·· ? ··] consul [·· ? ··] (b. 3)Herenni[·· ? ··](case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.18)

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