Description: a: Fragment from the right-hand side of a marble
panel (w:
0.095 x h:
0.12 x d:
0.03).
b: Fragment from the lower part of a marble
panel (w:
0.12 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.025).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.045.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
a: Forum Vetus
b: found in the road west of the Hadrianic Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(623) : [---] ? of the people [---]; (786) : [---](line 2) wild beasts [---]
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
(Fragment a) : . . . of the people . . . ; (Fragment b) : . . . of labours . . . beast hunt . . . set up . . .
Bibliography: a: IRT, 1952, 623, whence IRT, 2009, 623; b: Relazioni di Scavo 23.10.26; IRT, 1952, 786, whence IRT, 2009, 786; Assembled Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 51, whence LSA, 2012, 2197 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059477; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Assembled: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 2. Assembled: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1612)
Fig. 3. From left: Above, 724, 623.a; Below, 511, 809: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.19)
Fig. 4. a: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 5. From left: Above: 769, 771; Below: 808.a 659, 623.b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.6)
Fig. 6. b: Tantillo (n.d.)