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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0782. Fragmentary testamentary inscription

Description: Fragment from the upper right-hard corner of a marble panel (w: 0.44 x h: 0.17).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Capitals with Rustic forms: 0.07.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[--- ex t]estamento
[---] for[c. 4]

Diplomatic

[---...]ESTAMENTO
[---]FOR[····]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] in accordance with the will [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 782, whence IRT, 2009, 782, whence EDH 059630; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.31)