WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0249. Fragment

Description: block (approx. w: 0.80 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.48) of brown limestone, much weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third to fourth century capitals: 0.025-0.03.

Date: Third to fourth centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Tripoli: Oea: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

[--- publ]ịc̣e merito eorum I[---]

Diplomatic

[---....]..EMERITOEORUMI[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] publicly by their merits [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 249, whence IRT, 2009, 249, whence EDH 059218; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 687 Leica)