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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0513. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.55, no edges surviving, surface weathered).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.045-0.05.

Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[--- domi]ṇo nos[tro ---]
[---] Pio F[elici ---]

Diplomatic

[---....].ONOS[...---]
[---]PIOF[.....---]

1: Augus]to nos[tro IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] our Augustus [---] Pius, Felix [---]

English translation

Translation source: LSA, 2012

... to our lord ... pious, fortunate ...

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 18.7.31; IRT, 1952, 513, whence IRT, 2009, 513; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 17, LSA, 2012, 2163 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059406; 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)