619. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description:
Fragment from the lower right-hand corner of a panel of yellow and white marble (w: 0.26 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.02).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.08.  
Date:
Third century 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) 
[---]
1 [Lepcitani pu]blice
[---]
1[·············]BLICE
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lepcitani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pu
</supplied>
blice
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··the Lepcitanians] publicly.

Commentary:

There are several other more or less fragmentary examples of this formula from the ends of monumental inscriptions cut in Rustic capitals. These belong probably to some of the many late second to early third century imperial dedications found at Lepcis, and they are not here listed separately.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.13)

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