WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0758. Fragment

Description: Damaged rectangular base (w: 0.65 x h: 0.125 x d: 0.40, top and bottom edges only) carrying a female statue.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.025.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio III, Chalcidicum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: In the store-room beside the Theatre.

Interpretive

[---] aere s[c. 5] ỊỊS[---]
[---]ucci[..]ione [---]
[---] AṚN [..] pos(uit) [---]

Diplomatic

[---]AERES[·····]..S[---]
[---]UCCI[··]IONE[---]
[---]A.N[··]POS[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] with [his own] money [---] ? sesterces [---] set (scil. this) up [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 758, whence IRT, 2009, 758, whence EDH 059605; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.17)