503. Fragment

Description:
Two fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.23 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.02 and w: 0.11 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third century capitals: 0.105. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[·· ? ·· pont(if-)] max(im-) tr[ib(unicia)] [p]ot(estate) X[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]MAXTR[··········][··]OTX[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
if
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
im
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
tr
<supplied reason="lost" >
ib
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num >
X
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] chief [priest] (case unknown), holding tribunician power for the tenth (or a higher figure) time [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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