WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0773. Fragments

Description: Three fragments of a marble panel, inscribed within a moulded border; similar to, and perhaps uniform with,793. a) w: 0.07 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.025, upper edge. b) w: 0.015 x h: 0.85 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving. c) w: 0.11 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.025, lower edge.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel.
Letters: Second to third century CE capitals: 0.045.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Harbour area.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[---]I ((leaf)) Ị[---]
b
[---]ṚOḶ[---]
[---]ri ((leaf)) s[---]
c
[---]t ((leaf)) lacu[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]I .[---]
b
[---].O.[---]
[---]RI S[---]
c
[---]T LACU[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a and b)not usefully translatable. (c)[---] pool [---] (case and number not known )

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 773, whence IRT, 2009, 773, whence EDH 059621; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Upper left: 307 (two fragments); lower left, 773 (three fragments); to the right, 793 (four fragments): Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.17)