788. Fragmentary ?building inscription
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.03, moulded lower border).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; Found among the late buildings behind the Temple of Magna Mater (Rel. Scav. 21.4.35
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
rn
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
aug
</unclear>
enda
contulit
e
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
t
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="sestertius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
sestertios
</ex>
<num
value="40"
>
XXXX
</num>
quae
pater
ei
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ui
donauerat
praeter
reli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
qu
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] he/she ?brought together ?to increase and [·· ? ··] and with forty thousand sesterces which his/her father [·· ? ··] had given as well as the rest [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.30)
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