803. Greek mason's marks

Description:
White Pentelic marble bases. 
Text:
Inscribed on the upper surfaces. 
Letters:
0.05-0.09. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street. 
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) 
a
ΑΙΟΓ
b
ΙΣ̣Κ̣ΑΟ
c
ΑΓ̣Α
d
Σ̣ [·]ΑΟ
e
ΑΓΑ
a
ΑΙΟΓ
b
Ι··ΑΟ
c
Α·Α
d
·[·]ΑΟ
e
ΑΓΑ
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
αιογ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
ι
<unclear reason="" >
σκ
</unclear>
αο
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
α
<unclear reason="" >
γ
</unclear>
α
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
αο
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig >
αγα
</orig>
</ab>
</div>

The reading of the ligatured letter, here, given as ΣΚ, is very dubious.

Translation:

(a) Of Aios

(b) Of Iskaos

(c) Aga( ?)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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