494. Fragments

Description:
Three fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.24, top left-hand corner, w: 0.11 x h: 0.17, righthand edge, and w: 0.18 x h: 0.14, bottom edge). 
Text:
Inscribed within a strongly moulded border.  
Letters:
Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.085: last line, 0.065.  
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 13.1.28 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) 
a
Imp(erator-) [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]m
c
[·· ? ··]D[·· ? ··]
a
IMP[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]M
c
[·· ? ··]D[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
m
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
d
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

Emperor [Caesar·· ? ··](case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.33)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.33)

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