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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0748. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.04), the surface badly abraded.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second century capitals: line 2-3, 0.03; line 4, 0.055.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

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[--- ex (sestertiis) c. 1 - 4] m(ilibus) n(ummum) d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) d(edit) [---]
[---]uae coniu[gi ---]
[---]s Tiberin[us ---]

Diplomatic

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[---...c. 1 - 4]MNDSPD[---]
[---]UAECONIU[..---]
[---]STIBERIN[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] gave [this?] at the cost of [---] thousand sesterces of his own money [---] to his wife [---] Tiberin[us?---]

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 14.4.28, IRT, 1952, 748, whence IRT, 2009, 748, whence EDH 059595; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Above left: 366, right 528; below 748: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.12)