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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0678. Fragment

Description: Part of a marble block (w: 0.65 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.29) with a moulded upper border.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.14.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Formerly in Homs Museum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---]ṣ Cerialis Calpu[rnius ---]

Diplomatic

[---].CERIALISCALPU[.....---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Cerealis Calpurnius (the case is presented as a nominative but might be a genitive) [---]

Commentary

Line 1. Cerialis Calpurnius. See also 676, line 3.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 678, whence IRT, 2009, 678, whence EDH 059529; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From top: 678; Punic text; 314: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 804)

   Fig. 2. From top: 678, 708: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.14)