768. Apotropaic acclamation
- Description:
- Apotropaic street sign (w: 1.24 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.50): within a tabella ansata, a phallic century with an enormous nose spearing an eye with a trident; grouped around the eye, a scorpion, a serpent and a bird.
- Text:
- Inscribed in the upper part of the panel.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.010-0.011
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre; Found in the rear portico, loose beside street to north.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Mal
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
er
</ab>
Translation:
Not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.27)
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