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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0554. Fragment

Description: Part of a marble panel (w: 0.52 x h: 0.41 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: line 1-2, 4 (Second to third century capitals), 0.045; line 3 (lapidary capitals), 0.07. There is a gap between line 2 and 3.

Date: Second to third centuries (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[--- qua]estor [---]
[--- i]ụnctus est ex tesṭ[amento ---]
[---] P̣ol(lia tribu) Quiet[---]
[---]ae augur[---]

Diplomatic

[---...]ESTOR[---]
[---.].NCTUSESTEXTES.[......---]
[---].OLQUIET[---]
[---]AEAUGUR[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] quaestor [---] ? joined (to something or someone) in accordance with the will [---] Quietus, of the Roman voting tribe Pollia, [---] augur [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 554, whence IRT, 2009, 554, whence EDH 059427; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 697, 554, 383: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)