Description: Two sections of a fragmentary panel (w:
0.95 x h:
0.61 x d:
0.025,
top and bottom edges, and w:
0.11 x h:
0.085 x d:
0.025, top edge only).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.065.
Date: CE 340-350 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[Florentissimis] saeculis dd(ominorum) nn(ostrorum) Fl(aui) Iuḷị [Consta]nti [maximi et]
[Fl(aui) Iuli Constantis m]aximi triumf̣[ato]ṛum semper A[ugg(ustorum)]
[c. 20uet]ustatis absum[pt]- [c. 25]
[c. 20]de turre[sc. 30]
5 [c. 8 de]f̣ensione adparatu[c. 30]
[---uir perfectissim- praes- ] p̣rouin[cia]e Tripolita[nae ---]
Diplomatic
[..............]SAECULISDDNNFLIU..[......]NTI[........]
[.................]AXIMITRIUM.[...].UMSEMPERA[...]
[····················...]USTATISABSUM[..·························]
[····················]DETURRE[.······························]
5[········..].ENSIONEADPARATU[······························]
[---....................].ROUIN[...]ETRIPOLITA[...---]
1: Fl(aui) Iul[i Consta]nti[·· ? ·· et] IRT, 1952
2: trium[phato]rum semper A[ugustorum ·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
4: [·· ? ··]ditur re[·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
6: [·· ? ··] prouin[ci]a Tripolita[na ·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
In [the most flourishing] period of our lords Flavius Julius Constantius [--- and Flavius Julius Constans] greatest, triumphant, always Augusti, [---] damaged as the result of age [---] in defence ? by provision [---] the province of Tripolitania[---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 470, whence IRT, 2009, 470; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 74; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059368; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragments assembled, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.31)
Fig. 3. Central fragments: Tantillo (2006)
Fig. 4. Central fragments: Tantillo (2006)
