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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0266. Dedication to Apollo

Description: block (w: 0.67 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.50) of yellow limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.25) and subsequently effaced.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.045.

Date: Probably second to mid-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, beside the street West of the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

⟦Apollini iub[e]ni
Clodio Cr[es]cente
Iub[i]nico ỊOỊUSỤIT ⟧
⟦DỊỊ ỊEOỊSỊỊFOIỤ [c. 4 - 5]

Diplomatic

⟦APOLLINIIUB[.]NI
CLODIOCR[..]CENTE
IUB[.]NICO.O.US.IT⟧
⟦D.. .EO.S..FOI.[c. 4 - 5]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the young Apollo; ?when Clodius Crescens Iubenicus [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 266, whence IRT, 2009, 266, whence EDH 059234; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.32)