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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0590h. Building inscriptions for benches

Description: Market-bench of grey limestone, roughly uniform with IRT 590ad, IRT 590ef, IRT 590g, IRT 590i (av. w: 1.90 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.52).
Text: Inscribed on the front edge within a moulded border (die, w: 1.65 x h: 0.05).
Letters: Irregular first century CE capitals: 0.045.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Market. One of them was found re-used as a step in the main entrance to the Turkish hospital in Homs (Aurigemma, loc. cit.).
Original location: Between the columns of the octagonal limestone building
Last recorded location: Replaced in position.

Interpretive

Aediles [---]

Diplomatic

AEDILES[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

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Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1939, 91; Degrassi N., 1945 11-12; IRT, 1952, 590, whence IRT, 2009, 590, whence EDH 065317

Images

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