WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0734. Fragment

Description: block (w: 1.06 x h: 0.40 surviving depth 0.22) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century lapidary capitals: from top of the block, line 1, 0.02-0.21; line 2, 0.24-0.355; to bottom, 0.40.

Date: First century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---] Ti(beri) Plau[ti ---]
[---]alsille[---]

Diplomatic

[---]TIPLAU[..---]
[---]ALSILLE[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Tiberius Plautius (case unknown) [--- B]alsille- [---]

Commentary

Line 2. Probably Balsille, see 300.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 734, whence IRT, 2009, 734, whence EDH 059581; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVIII.5)