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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0549. Fragment

Description: Fragment from the right-hand side of a white marble panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.06).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century lapidary capitals: 0.10.

Date: Second to third centuries (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---] co(n)s(ul)-
[--- leg(at)- ---] pr(o) pr(aetore)
------

Diplomatic

[---]COS
[---...---]PRPR
------

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---](line 2) consul [--- legate] with propraetorian powers [---] (case unknown)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 549, whence IRT, 2009, 549, whence EDH 059422; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.15)