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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0498. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment from the upper part of a white marble panel (max. surviving measurements, w: 0.26 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.03).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Capitals with Rustic forms: line 1, 0.06; line 2, 0.05; line 3, 0.06.

Date: Unknown

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Punic Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---] Neruae [---]
[---] XI [---]
[--- a]ed(il)- ex ṃ[ultis?---]
[---] it[em ---]

Diplomatic

[---]NERUAE[---]
[---]XI[---]
[---.]EDEX.[.....---]
[---]IT[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] of Nerva [---] eleven times [---] aedile (case and number not known) ?from the fines [---] likewise [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 498, whence IRT, 2009, 498, whence EDH 059391; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: IRT 498; above, IRT 1047, IRT 808a; below, IRT 513, IRT 808b; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.23)