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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0349. Fragmentary dedication to Domitian

Description: Broken block (w: 0.95 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.23) of grey limestone, badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block, line 1 (decapitated) 0.075 0.24.

Date: CE 81-96? (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

[--- Uespa]ṣiani ⟦f(ili) Do[mitian]⟧- [---]

Diplomatic

[---.....].IANI⟦FDO[......]⟧[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

i: [---] Domitian (case unknown), son of Vespasian [---]

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

ii: . . . for the work of the place on . . .

Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 7 Reynolds, 1951 118-119; IRT, 1952, 349, whence AE 1954.183a IRT, 2009, 349, whence EDH 067664; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.26)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.13)