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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0317a. Title for image of Venus

Description: Moulded base of grey limestone. 1.10.
Text: Inscribed on one face, die, w: 0.47 x h: 0.70.
Letters: Lettering (of good period): 0.05.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Along the presumed line of a Road from the Circus to the Port. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, about 100 m. west of the Circus and 30 m. from the sea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1912)

Interpretive

Ụeṇuṣ
Cassianạ

Diplomatic

.E.U.
CASSIAN.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Venus Cassiana (nominative case)

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 152, whence AE 1926.165-6; Aurigemma, 1930, 76 ff., fig. 1; IRT, 1952, 317.a, whence IRT, 2009, 317.a, whence a: EDH 025543

Images

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