WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0788. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.03, moulded lower border).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; found among the late buildings behind the Temple of Magna Mater
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---]rn[---]
[---] ạụg̣enda contulit eṭ[---]
[---] et (sestertios) XXXX quae pater ei[---]
[---]ui donauerat praeter reli[qu---]

Diplomatic

[---]RN[---]
[---]...ENDACONTULITE.[---]
[---]ET 𐆘 XXXXQUAEPATEREI[---]
[---]UIDONAUERATPRAETERRELI[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] he/she ?brought together ?to increase and [---] and with forty thousand sesterces which his/her father [---] had given as well as the rest [---]

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 21.4.35, IRT, 1952, 788, whence IRT, 2009, 788, whence EDH 059636; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.30)