665. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper part of a panel of grey limestone (w: 0.14 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.05).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals: l. 1, 0 035; l. 2, 0.05.
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose near the South East angle.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
A
</supplied>
ntoni
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
us
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
F
</supplied>
elix
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, Or Antoninus. The lettering is not that of a second or third century imperial dedication.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Antonius (or Antoninus) [·· ? ··] Felix [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.3)
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