WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0776. Fragmentary dedication

Description: block (w: 0.79 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, much weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.12.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---] ualuas dedic(auit)

Diplomatic

[---]UALUASDEDIC

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] he/she/they dedicated the folding doors.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 776, whence IRT, 2009, 776, whence EDH 059624; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.16)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1614 Leica)