WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0431. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment of a panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.85, no edges surviving) of white marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12-0.13.

Date: Perhaps Severan (lettering, monumental character)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. Found in the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---]onin[---]
[---]rus [---]
[---]ịs et or[---]
[---]rfic[---]
5 [---]it[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ONIN[---]
[---]RUS[---]
[---].SETOR[---]
[---]RFIC[---]
5[---]IT[---]

1: Perhaps Antonin[ . . .?

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translatable.)

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 27.5.35.; IRT, 1952, 431, whence IRT, 2009, 431, whence EDH 059336; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.26)