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<TEI.2 lang="en" id="IRT516"><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title>Fragmentary <rs type="textType" cert="low">building</rs> inscription</title><editor>J. M. Reynolds</editor><editor>J. B. Ward-Perkins</editor></titleStmt><publicationStmt>
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<p>Republished from <bibl id="irt1952">
                  <author>J. M. Reynolds</author> and <author>J. B. Ward-Perkins</author>, <title level="m">The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania</title>, <pubPlace>Rome</pubPlace>: <publisher>British
                  School at Rome</publisher>, <date>1952</date>. </bibl>
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                  <geogName type="ancientRegion" key="Tripolitania">Tripolitania</geogName>
               </term><term>
                  <geogName type="modernCountry" key="LY">Libya</geogName>
               </term><term>
                  <placeName type="modernFindspot" key="http://www.geonames.org/2215692/leptis-magna.html">Leptis Magna</placeName>
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<div type="description" subtype="monument">
<head>Description of Monument</head>
<p>Two <rs type="objectType">block</rs>s
               (each <rs type="dimensions"><measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="width">1.34</measure>
                  <measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="height">0.52</measure><measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="depth">0.20</measure></rs> - the depth measurement is approximate.) of <rs type="material">grey limestone</rs>; the left sides of two apparently identical panels.</p></div>

<div type="description" subtype="text">
<head>Description of Text</head>
<p>Each block inscribed within a <rs type="decoration">tabella ansata</rs> (die, surviving width <rs type="dimensions"><measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="width">0.91</measure><measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="height">0.39</measure></rs>).</p></div>

<div type="description" subtype="letters">
<head>Description of Letters</head>
<p> Lapidary capitals: l. 1, <measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="height">0.105</measure>; 
               l. 2, <measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="height">0.085</measure>; l. 3, <measure unit="metre" type="length" dim="height">0.08</measure>.</p></div>

<div type="description" subtype="date">
<head>Date</head>
<p>
               <date type="textDate" notBefore="0079" exact="notBefore">After A.D. 79</date>
            (<rs type="criteria">titulature</rs>)</p></div>

<div type="history" subtype="locations">
<head>Locations</head>
<p>
               <rs type="found">
                  <placeName type="ancientFindspot" ref="http://atlantides.org/batlas/neapolis-lepcis-magna-35-g2" key="db653">Lepcis Magna</placeName>: 
                  <rs type="monuList" key="db735">Port area</rs>, on the East Mole, together with much re-used material from other sites. Text b) was found re-used as a threshold (Bartoccini MS notes). </rs>
            </p>
<p>
               <rs type="origLocation">Unknown</rs>
            </p>
<p>
               <rs type="lastLocation">Findspot</rs>
            </p></div>


<div type="bibliography">
   <head>Bibliography</head><p>Not previously published.</p></div>

<div type="history" subtype="text-constituted-from">
<head>Text constituted from</head>
<p>Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)</p></div>

<div type="edition" lang="la">
<head lang="en">Text</head>

<div type="textpart" subtype="fragment" n="a">
<ab>
               <lb n="1"/> <persName type="attested"><name reg="Marcus" type="praenomen"><expan><abbr>M</abbr><ex>arcus</ex></expan></name> 
                  <name reg="Annius" type="gentilicium">Annius</name> <name type="cognomen" reg="Messal-"><seg part="I">Messal</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></name></persName>
               <lb n="2"/><w lemma="allecto">adlectus</w> <w lemma="in">in</w> <w lemma="senatus">senatum</w> <w lemma="ab">a</w> <w lemma="diuus">d<supplied reason="lost">iuo</supplied></w>
               <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
               <lb n="3"/><w lemma="ab">a</w> <persName type="emperor"><w lemma="diuus">diuo</w> <name reg="Vespasianus" type="cognomen">Vespasiano</name></persName> 
               <w lemma="legatus"><expan><abbr>leg</abbr><ex>atus</ex></expan></w> <placeName>Afric<supplied reason="lost">ae</supplied></placeName>
               <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
            </ab></div>

<div type="textpart" subtype="fragment" n="b">
<ab>
               <lb n="1"/><persName type="attested"><name reg="Marcus" type="praenomen"><expan><abbr>M</abbr><ex>arcus</ex></expan></name> 
                  <name reg="Annius" type="gentilicium">Annius</name> <name><seg part="I">Messa<supplied reason="lost">l</supplied></seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></name></persName>
               
               <lb n="2"/><w lemma="allecto">adlectus</w> <w lemma="in">in</w> <w lemma="senatus">senatum</w> <w lemma="ab">a</w> <w lemma="diuus">di<supplied reason="lost">uo</supplied></w>
               <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
               <lb n="3"/><w lemma="ab">a</w> <persName type="emperor"><w lemma="diuus">diuo</w> <name reg="Vespasianus" type="cognomen">Vespasiano</name></persName> 
               <w lemma="legatus"><expan><abbr>leg</abbr><ex>atus</ex></expan></w> <placeName>Afr<supplied reason="lost">icae</supplied></placeName>
               <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
            </ab></div></div>

<div type="apparatus">
<head>Apparatus</head>
<p>
               <app loc="a 1"><note> Probably Messalla.</note></app>
            
               
            </p></div>

<div type="translation">
<head>Translation</head>
<p><note>a, repeated in b.</note>  Marcus Annius Messal<gap reason="lost"/> adlected into the Senate by deified <supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Claudius</supplied> <gap reason="lost"/> by deified Vespasian, legate of Africa <gap reason="lost"/> </p></div>

<div type="commentary">
<head>Commentary</head>
<p>l.1:  For the name see L Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla, PIR (2) C 1425.</p><p>l.2: deified: Claudius or Vespasian.</p></div>

<div type="figure">
<head>Photographs</head>
<p>
<figure href="0655"><figDesc>Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.7)</figDesc></figure>
<figure href="0656"><figDesc>Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 602)</figDesc></figure></p></div></body></text></TEI.2>
