WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0771. Fragment

Description: Two joining fragments of a marble base (w: 0.17 x h: 0.23, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face, from which a previous text has been erased.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.035.

Date: 324-326 CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah )
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

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[---tr]ipertit[a porticus]
[magnitu]dine su[i ac Troa-]
[dens]ium column[arum ado-]
[rnat]a operis pr[ouincialium]
5[ac sump]tu p[ublico]

Diplomatic

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[---..]IPERTIT[.........]
[.......]DINESU[.......-]
[....]IUMCOLUMN[.......-]
[....]AOPERISPR[...........]
5[......]TUP[......]

1: [---]per tḥ[---] IRT, 1952
4: [---] operis pṛ[---] IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line 3 column[s (case and number unknown)---] of the work [---])

English translation

Translation source: LSA, 2012

... a tripartite portico, decorated by its own magnitude and by columns from Troas, was made and dedicated from provincial labour and public expense ...

Commentary

The text has been restored by reference to 467, lines 5-6.

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 7.8.32, IRT, 1952, 771, whence IRT, 2009, 771; Revised Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 72, whence LSA, 2012, 2214 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059619; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1613)

   Fig. 2. Fragments with restoration, drawing: Bigi (2009)

   Fig. 3. From left: Above: 769, 771; Below: 808.a 659, 623.b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.6)