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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0493. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment from the upper left corner of a marble panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.03).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals: line 1, 0.10; line 2, 0.09.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[I]mp(erator)- Caes(ar)[---]
[c. 4] Anton[in---]

Diplomatic

[.]MPCAES[---]
[····]ANTON[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Emperor Caesar [---] Antoninus [---] (case unknown)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 493, whence IRT, 2009, 493, whence EDH 059386; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 697, part; below, 493, Unidentified: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.12)