WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0612. Fragment

Description: Broken block (surviving width w: 0.62 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE capitals from top of block, line 1, 0.45-0.18; line 2, 0.21-0.31; to bottom, 0.19.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the sea-wall, beside 770.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[--- patr]onus
[---]I

Diplomatic

[---....]ONUS
[---]I

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] patron (nominative case) [---]

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 133; IRT, 1952, 612, whence IRT, 2009, 612, whence EDH 059466; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.31)