Description: Two fragments probably from the same marble
panel. a) w:
0.65 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.025, from the upper edge. b) w:
0.26 x h:
0.19 x d:
0.025, from the lower edge.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: a) Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.11. b) Lapidary capitals: 0.10.
Date: First to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
a.2: There may be an intervening line of text, not represented in this fragment.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a. )[---] chief [priest], holding tribunician power [---]
( b. ) [---]he(/she) built this at his(/her) own expense.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 504, whence IRT, 2009, 504, whence EDH 059397; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.48)