WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0726. Fragment

Description: block (w: 0.54 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.60) of grey limestone, with moulding above.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.08.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre, found re-used, and now loose in the West dressing-room.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Now loose in the West dressing-room of the Theatre.

Interpretive

[--- Ma]rcio Cre[---]

Diplomatic

[---..]RCIOCRE[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] to Marcius Cre[scens?---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 726, whence IRT, 2009, 726, whence EDH 059575; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.8)