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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0482. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: Two blocks of hard yellowish-grey limestone. w: 0.52 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.35, and w: 0.44 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.30.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.13. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.08; line 2, 0.07.

Date: 42-43 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Fourth century wall; probably re-used in the wall.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lying loose beside the West Gate.

Interpretive

[Ti(berio) Claudio Caesari ? A]ug(usto) pont[(ifici)]- [max(imo)- tribunicia pot]estat[e] [ II co(n)s(uli) II des(ignato) III imp(eratori) III patri patriae]
[Q(uintus) Marcius C(ai) f(ilius) B]area co(n)[s(ul)] XVuir sacris [faci]undis fẹ[tialis proco(n)s(ul) II dedicauit]

Diplomatic

[.................]UGPONT[................]ESTAT[................................]
[...........]AREACO[.]XVUIRSACRIS[....]UNDISF.[.......................]

2: area co[lumnis? IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---]Augustus [chief] priest, holding [tribunician] power [for the ? time---] the area ? with columns [---].

Commentary

A fragment of 343 was associated with this text (as 482.b). The restorations are by Silvestrini (art.cit.).

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 482, whence IRT, 2009, 482; Silvestrini, 1985 279-283, whence AE 1987.989; EDH 004092; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left, 482, 343: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.6)