785. Fragment from the Theatre.
- Description:
- Part of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.19 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: ll. 1,4, 0.06; l. 2, 0.03; l. 3, 0.075.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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"
/>
cam
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
mo
su
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
e
hered
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
es
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ciu
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
s
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.2) heir (case and number not known) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1669 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.33)
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