WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0660. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.165 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals: line 1, 0.065; line 2, 0.04.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---]s Afer [---]
[--- de] suo [---]
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Diplomatic

[---]SAFER[---]
[---..]SUO[---]
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Afer [---] at his own expense [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 660, whence IRT, 2009, 660, whence EDH 059512; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: IRT 499, unidentified, IRT 794j; below, IRT 507, IRT 660: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.7)