791. Panel fragments

Description:
Fragments of two similar marble panels, each inscribed between horizontal lines and differing only in thickness and in the grain of the marble. a) w: 0.21 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.05, possibly from upper edge. b) w: 0.16 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving. c) w: 0.38 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving. d) w: 0.24 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving. 
Text:
Each inscribed between horizontal lines. 
Letters:
Mannered lapidary capitals, probably third century: 0.08.  
Date:
Probably third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Street from the Chalcidicum to the Hadrianic Baths; a) - c) found in the street. (Rel. Scav. 23.11.31); Forum Vetus; d) found in Church II 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··]lau[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]t pi[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]bo[·· ? ··]
c
[---]
2 [·· ? ··]b et[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··] pec[unia ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]LAV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]TPI[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]BO[·· ? ··]
c
[---]
2[·· ? ··]BET[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]PEC[······· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
lau
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
t
pi
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
bo
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
b
et
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
pec
<supplied reason="lost" >
unia
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a-c) not usefully translatable; (d)[·· ? ··] money (case unknown) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.10)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.10)

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