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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0494. Fragments

Description: Three fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.24, top left-hand corner, w: 0.11 x h: 0.17, righthand edge, and w: 0.18 x h: 0.14, bottom edge).
Text: Inscribed within a strongly moulded border.
Letters: Second century CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.085: last line, 0.065.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
Imp(erator)- [---]
b
[---]m
c
[---]D[---]

Diplomatic

a
IMP[---]
b
[---]M
c
[---]D[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Emperor [Caesar---](case unknown)

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 13.1.28; IRT, 1952, 494, whence IRT, 2009, 494, whence EDH 059387; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 493, 585; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.33)