716. Fragment
- Description:
- Block (measurable length, w: 1.15 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.51) terminating at one end in a triangle.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.19.
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, half buried in the sand beside the caravan route from Homs to the oasis of Sahel el-Ahàmed, as it passes the hill Sidi Barcu. Not seen again.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1912)
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:90ff., fig. 8. 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
L
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
ucius
</ex>
Iunius
Afer
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Lucius Junius Afer [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 1. L. Iunius Afer. Perhaps also in 601, l. 18.
- Photographs:
- none.
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