500. Fragments

Description:
Two fragments (w: 0.15 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.06 and w: 0.18 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.065, no edges surviving), probably from the same marble panel. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.095. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum. Found in 1947. 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··]Ị DIVIN[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ·· Sep]timiạ [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]Ẹ ẸỌ[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]·DIVIN[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ······]TIMI·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]···[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
<orig >
diuin
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sep
</supplied>
timi
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
</orig>
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
eo
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

a.1, Perhaps ... diui Traiani abn(ep) diui Neruae adn(ep) ...

Translation:

a. [·· ? ··] of deified N[erva·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··] Septimia [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.14)

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