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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0716. Fragment

Description: Block (measurable length, w: 1.15 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.51) terminating at one end in a triangle.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.19.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, half buried in the sand beside the caravan route from Homs to the oasis of Sahel el-Ahàmed, as it passes the hill Sidi Barcu.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1912)

Interpretive

Ḷ(ucius) Iunius Afer [---]

Diplomatic

.IUNIUSAFER[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Lucius Junius Afer [ . . .

Commentary

Iunius Afer: PIR I 0728, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7912

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1930 90-91ff., fig. 8; IRT, 1952, 716, whence IRT, 2009, 716, whence EDH 059565

Images

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