WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0769. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.27 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals. 0.045.

Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

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[---]SỊMỊ[---]
[---flumi]nis impetu[---]
[---m]ẹatum ((stop)) Fḷ(auius?)[---]
[---aqu]ạẹduc[t---]
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Diplomatic

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[---]S.M.[---]
[---.....]NISIMPETU[---]
[---.].ATUM F.[---]
[---...]..DUC[.---]
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1: [·· ? ··]sim[·· ? ··] - IRT, 1952
2: [·· ? ··]nis impetu[·· ? ··]: perhaps read fluminis impetu IRT, 1952
3: [·· ? ··]ṭatum ẹ[·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
4: Aquaeductu? IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line 2 ) ?flow ?of the river [---] ? an aqueduct (case unknown)[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 769, whence IRT, 2009, 769; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 76, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059617; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: IRT.769, IRT.771; Below: 808.a 659, 623.b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.6)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1607)

   Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1608)