WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0779. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.65 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.075).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.11

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[--- ded]it et dedic[auit]

Diplomatic

[---...]ITETDEDIC[....]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] he/she gave and dedicated (scil. it).

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 779, whence IRT, 2009, 779, whence EDH 059627; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 779; below 619, Unidentified, 512: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.13)