WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0615a. Fragments

Description: Two fragments probably from the same marble panel. a) w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving. b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.03. No edges surviving.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late form of rustic capitals: 0.06.

Date: Third to fourth century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[---]RAỌ[---]
[---]atri quị[---]
b
[---] p̣ubḷ[ic---]
[---]poris[---]
[--- re]i pub(licae) ẹ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]RA.[---]
[---]ATRIQU.[---]
b
[---].UB.[..---]
[---]PORIS[---]
[---..]IPUB.[---]

a.1: Ọ Or C or G or Q.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a) [---](line 2) to a father (or a brother) who[---]

(b) [---] public [---] of the republic [---]

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 40, fig. 23 , whence AE, 1948.18; IRT, 1952, 615a, whence IRT, 2009, 615a; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 77, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059469; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: Unidentified, 791a, Unidentified; Below: 615a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1819 Leica)