WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0604. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Block of grey limestone (w: 0.65 x h: 0.45, depth unknown); later re-used, the left-hand face being cut to form a cornice moulding.
Text: Inscribed on one face with the right-hand end of a monumental inscription.
Letters: First century CE capitals: line 1, 0.075 line 3, 0.055.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Theatre, Chalcidicum - found in the street between the two.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[--- R]ufo
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[--- patr]ono

Diplomatic

[---.]UFO
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---....]ONO

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] to Rufus [---] to their patron

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 604, whence IRT, 2009, 604, whence EDH 059461; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1834 Leica)