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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0547. Fragments

Description: Fragments from a marble panel (the largest of them, w: 0.25 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.02), six of which contain legible letters.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.09. a) Two fragments, no borders. b) Two fragments, no borders c) No borders. d) No borders.

Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[---]ỊỊ proco(n)s(ul)[---]
b
[---] sp[lendidissi]mi ord[inis ---]
c
[--- Lep]cit[ani publice ---]
d
[---]st[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]..PROCOS[---]
b
[---]SP[..........]MIORD[....---]
c
[---...]CIT[..........---]
d
[---]ST[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a.[---consul] (at least) twice, proconsul [---] (case unknown)

b.[---]of the most splendid town council [---]

c. [---] the Lepcitanians [publicly---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 547, whence IRT, 2009, 547, whence EDH 05942; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.16)