WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0497. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment of a panel of white marble (w: 0.12 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.015, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals: 0.06. Traces of red paint in the letters.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[--- diui Ma]rci [---]
[---] imp(erator)- [---]
[---]OS[.]TṚ[---]

Diplomatic

[---......]RCI[---]
[---]IMP[---]
[---]OS[·]T.[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] of deified Marcus [---] declared victor (case unknown) [times?---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 497, whence IRT, 2009, 497, whence EDH 059390; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 757; above: 360, 497; below: 777, 823; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.6)