549. Fragment

Description:
Fragment from the right-hand side of a white marble panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.06).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third century lapidary capitals: 0.10.  
Date:
Second to third centuries (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) 
[·· ? ··] co(n-)s(ul-)
[·· ? ·· leg(at-) ·· ? ··] pr(o) pr(aetore)
[---]
[·· ? ··]COS
[·· ? ········ ? ··]PRPR
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
at
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··](l.2) consul [·· ? ·· legate] with propraetorian powers [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.15)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.15)

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