306. Fragmentary building inscription
- Description:
- Architrave block (w: 1.12 x h: 0.55 c. 0.55) of compact grey limestone, with a moulding along the lower edge and sockets for beams at the back; inscribed on the face, considerably weathered.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- First century lapidary capitals: from top of block l. 1, 0.04-0.20; I. 2, 0.28-0.40: moulding 0.475-0.55.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: On the sea-shore West of the Forum Vetus, beside the remains of an early Imperial structure.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925134; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.)1926:162 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
C
</supplied>
ornut
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
templu
</supplied>
m
Neptun
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Cornutus (case unknown) [·· ? ··?templ]e of Neptune [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.11)
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