WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0446. Fragmentary dedication? to ?Severan emperor

Description: Three fragments, all probably from the same panel of white marble.
Text: Inscribed . a) w: 0.12 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.037, no edges surviving b) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.027, no edges surviving c) w: 0.155 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.09:

Date: Perhaps Geta or Seuerus Alexander. (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[---]+⟧ A[---]
[---]P̣O[---]
b
[---]+++[---]
[--- Augu]sto [---]
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c
------
[---]rum [---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]·⟧A[---]
[---].O[---]
b
[---]···[---]
[---....]STO[---]
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c
------
[---]RUM[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a and c are not usefully translatable). (b) [--- to (or by)] Augustus [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 446, whence IRT, 2009, 446, whence EDH 059349; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Unidentified, Unidentified, 446 (three fragments)Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.17)