WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0551. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: Part of a panel of white marble (w: 0.95 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.03, lower edge only) consisting of a pilaster, reversed and inscribed longitudinally.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century lapidary capitals: line 1-2, 0.07; line 3-4, 0.08.

Date: Second to third centuries (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio III, Chalcidicum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: now in the Theatre.

Interpretive

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[---]iam[---]
[---]runt ded[icauerunt ---]
[--- aug]ur p̣ro[---]
5[--- prae]tor desig(natus) leg(atus) pr[o pr(aetore) ---]

Diplomatic

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[---]IAM[---]
[---]RUNTDED[.........---]
[---...]UR.RO[---]
5[---....]TORDESIGLEGPR[....---]

4: p̣ro : tro : less probably, tro[... ]. There is a long space between this and the preceding word.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---](line 2)they dedicated [---] augur pro[---] praetor designate, propraetorian legate [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 551, whence IRT, 2009, 551, whence EDH 059424; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.32)