WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0778. Panel fragments

Description: Two fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.50 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.05 and w: 0.26 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[--- u]etustate [---]
b
[---]R[---]
[---conla]bsum res[tituit ---]

Diplomatic

a
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---.]ETUSTATE[---]
b
[---]R[---]
[---.....]BSUMRES[......---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a) [---] with age [---] ; (b) he/she/they restored the collapsed [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 778, whence IRT, 2009, 778, whence EDH 059626; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Unidentified, 509, 778: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1680 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.9)