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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0700. Testamentary dedication?

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.96 x d: 0.52) of rather coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.70).
Letters: Irregular capitals with Rustic forms (probably third century CE): av. 0.03-0.035.

Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, insula 6, opposite the South East entrance to the Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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et Flau[iu]s [Ca-]
pito statuas
10quatuor [c. 2 - 3]
(denarios) UIII ad[iec]tis
amplius d[e]
[s]uo (denariis) ↀ V he-
r[e]des posu-
15erunt

Diplomatic

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ETFLAU[..]S[..-]
PITOSTATUAS
10QUATUOR[c. 2 - 3]
𐆖 UIIIAD[...]TIS
AMPLIUSD[.]
[.]UO 𐆖 ↀVHE
R[.]DESPOSU
15ERUNT

11: i.e. denarios octo milia.
13: i.e. denariis mille quinque.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] and Flavius Capito, his heirs, set up four statues at a cost of eight thousand denarii, adding one thousand five hundred denarii of their own.

Commentary

Line 8-9. Flauius Capito. Perhaps also in 701.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 700, whence IRT, 2009, 700, whence EDH 059549; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 317)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XI.5)