506. Dedication by the Lepcitani
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.55 x h: 0.43).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Lepcit
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ani
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
numin
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
eius
<lb
n="4"
/>
deuotissimi
<lb
n="5"
/>
publice
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians, deeply devoted to his(/her) divine power (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.8)
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