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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0488. Fragment

Description: block (w: 0.51 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.97) of compact grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block, line 1, 0.13-0.32; to bottom, 0.50.

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, west of the Byzantine Wall, near the sea-shore.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[--- c]o(n)s(ul)- VI [---]

Diplomatic

[---.]OSVI[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] consul for the sixth time [---]

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 132; IRT, 1952, 488, whence IRT, 2009, 488, whence EDH 059381

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