WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0792. Fragment

Description: Adjoining fragments (w: 0.155 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.02), from the lower part of a panel of white marble.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face. There are traces of red paint in the letters, and of red-painted guide lines
Letters: Roughly incised third to fourth centuries capitals: line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.05; line 3, 0.02. .

Date: Third to fourth centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

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[---] UAỊỊỊ[---]
[---] patriạ[---]
[--- submi]nistratis [---]

Diplomatic

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[---]UA...[---]
[---]PATRI.[---]
[---.....]NISTRATIS[---]

1: [·· ? ··] VAṚIM [·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
3: [·· ? ·· submi]nistratis IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line 2 ) native country (nominative, accusative or ablative) [---] to/by/with [---] administered [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 792, whence IRT, 2009, 792; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 79, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059642; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1610)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above: Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified; Below: 671, 792, , Unidentified: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.18)