486. Fragmentary ?dedication
- Description:
- Lower part of a block (height and depth incomplete: w: 1.26 x h: 0.255 x d: 0.26) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals (decapitated): c. 0.17; to bottom of block, 0.14.
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Perhaps to be identified with CIL VIII, 22669, described in 1694 as 'sur le bord de la mer'.
- 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ca
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
es
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ar
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, The letters CA are followed by a gap, which may be due to wear, but conveys the impression that the text was left unfinished.
Translation:
Emperor Caesar (case unknown)[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1613 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.18)
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