827. Libyan ?title for a bust
- Description:
- Cylindrical block (diameter w: 0.38 x h: 0.52) of brown limestone, the upper part of which is cut away in front to portray a male bust in high relief, with a deeply incised cross on the chest; below the bust a panel.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- 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)
(Not transcribed. See drawing)
(Not transcribed. See drawing)
<note>
Not transcribed. See drawing
</note>
Translation:
Not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVIII.25)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 593)
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- Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 194)
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