WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0490. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: Five damaged balustrade blocks of compact grey limestone with a uniform moulding.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.27.

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Above Punic Market (insula 4-5), from the monumental inscription on the exterior of the octagonal limestone market building.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

a
[---] X[---]
b
[---]E Ṛ[---]
c
[---] C[---]
d
[---]AE[---]
e
[---]ḌỊ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]X[---]
b
[---]E .[---]
c
[---]C[---]
d
[---]AE[---]
e
[---]..[---]

b: Or [---] E P [---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translatable.)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 490, whence IRT, 2009, 490, whence EDH 059383 ; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 147)

   Fig. 2. Block b: Tantillo (2005)