WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0789. Panel fragment

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second to third century capitals: 0.045

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]E MA ỊỊỌ[---]
[--- e]x (sestertiis) X m(ilibus) [n(ummum) ---]
[---]imis de[---]
[---]itus et s[---]

Diplomatic

[---]E MA ...[---]
[---.]X 𐆘 XM[..---]
[---]IMISDE[---]
[---]ITUSETS[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line 2) from ten thousand sesterces [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 789, whence IRT, 2009, 789, whence EDH 059637; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, IRT 573 a and b; Below: IRT 811.b, IRT 789: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.34)