Description: Fragments from the lower part of a marble
panel
(w:
0.40 x h:
0.52, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second century capitals: 0.065.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
2: An upright precedes the L at the opening of the line, presumably I or T.
4: Meṛula Or Medula; but the bowl of the letter is rather narrow for a D.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] (line 2) adorned (case and number unknown) [---] Merula (nominative case) [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 730, whence IRT, 2009, 730, whence EDH 059578; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.28)