709. Fragments
- Description:
- Two fragments of a panel of marble, cream mottled with grey and purple. a) w: 0.13 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.01; left-hand edge. b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.06 x d: 0.01; no edges surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving faces.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.03.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
g
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Gran
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
<orig
>
f
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
rio
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) [·· ? ··] Gran[i·· ? ··] (case unknown)
(b) Not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)
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