WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0510. Fragmentary dedication? for an emperor

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third-fourth century CE capitals: 0.065; dot for stop

Date: Late third - early fourth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1948)

Interpretive

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[--- P]iọ F̣elic[i ---]
[---] max(imo) ((stop)) Ṭ [---]
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Diplomatic

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[---.]I..ELIC[.---]
[---]MAX .[---]
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] Pius, Felix, [---]greatest [Uictor?---]

English translation

Translation source: LSA, 2012

... pious fortunate ... greatest ....

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 510, whence IRT, 2009, 510; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 20, LSA, 2012, 2166 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059403; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 761, 510: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.28)