700. Testamentary ?dedication

Description:: Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.96 x d: 0.52) of rather coarse grey limestone.
Text:: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.70).
Letters:: Irregular capitals with Rustic forms (probably third century A.D.): av. 0.03-0.035.
Date:: Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, ins. 6, opposite the South East entrance to the Market.
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)

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8et Flau[iu]s [Ca]-
pito statuas
10quatuor [ - - - ]
(denarios) VIII ad[iec]tis
amplius d[e]
[s]uo (denariis) ↀ V he-
r[e]des posu-
15erunt

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8ETFLAV[···]S[···]
PITOSTATVAS
10QVATVOR[ - - - ]
denarius VIIIAD[····]TIS
AMPLIVSD[··]
[··]VO denarius ↀVHE
R[··]DESPOSV
15ERVNT

<ab>

Flau

</supplied>

</supplied>

pito

statuas

quatuor

<expan>

<abbr>

<am>

</am>

</abbr>

<ex>

denarios

</ex>

</expan>

VIII

</num>

iec

</supplied>

tis

amplius

</supplied>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

<am>

</am>

</abbr>

<ex>

denariis

</ex>

</expan>

ↀ V

</num>

</supplied>

des

posu

erunt

</ab>

11, i.e. denarios octo milia.

13, i.e. denariis mille quinque.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] and Flavius Capito, his heirs, set up four statues at a cost of eight thousand denarii, adding one thousand five hundred denarii of their own.