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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0485. Fragments from building? inscription

Description: a) block (w: 1.10 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.46) of grey limestone, much weathered. b: Three blocks of limestone: b.1: w: 1.01 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.46. b.2: w: 0.69 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.17. b.3: w: 2.23 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.46.
Text: a) Inscribed on one face, from a monumental inscription. b) Inscribed in letters of approximately the same, unusually large, size as a.
Letters: First century CE lapidary capitals: a: 0.37; b.1: 0.35; b.2: 0.35; b.3: 0.35.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; a) behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, West of the Byzantine Waline b) Described as lying between the forum and the sea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: b) Findspots (1925).

Interpretive

a
[--- po]tes[tate ---]
b
1
[---]po[---]
2
[--- c]o(n)s(ul)- [---]
3
Herenn[i]- [---]

Diplomatic

a
[---..]TES[....---]
b
1
[---]PO[---]
2
[---.]OS[---]
3
HERENN[.---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a.[---] holding the power [---]

(b. 1) Not usefully translatable.

(b. 2)[---] consul [---] (b. 3)Herenni[---](case unknown)

Bibliography: a) Cagnat and Merlin, 1923 I(k) ; Romanelli, 1925, 133 . b.1) Cagnat and Merlin, 1923 I(i) ; Romanelli, 1925, 133 . 2) Cagnat and Merlin, 1923 I(e) ; Romanelli, 1925, 133; 3) Cagnat and Merlin, 1923 I(g) ; Romanelli, 1925, 133 ; IRT, 1952, 485, whence IRT, 2009, 485, whence EDH 059378; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.18)