WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0760. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.38 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second to third centuries capitals: line 2, 0.085; line 3, 0.08.

Date: Second to third centuries (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---] MẠC̣ [---]
[---]culu[..]A[---]
[---]tulis a nou[---]
[---]ueru[---]

Diplomatic

[---]M..[---]
[---]CULU[··]A[---]
[---]TULISANOU[---]
[---]UERU[---]

1: The letter before C appears to be A or R.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translatable.)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 760, whence IRT, 2009, 760, whence EDH 059607; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: 701b, 704; Below: 760, 701a: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.35)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.32)