WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0794j. Quarry-mark

Description: On the reverse face of a fragment of a panel of Numidian marble (giallo antico): w: 0.13 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.02.
Text: Roughly incised on undressed surface
Letters: 0.05.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)

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

Interpretive

[---] ER [---]
[---] lib(erti) pr[oc(uratoris) ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ER[---]
[---]LIBPR[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---](line 2 ) freedman procurator [---] (case unknown)

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 95 ; IRT, 1952, 794, whence IRT, 2009, 794, whence EDH 067696; see also Ward-Perkins, 1951 89-90; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: IRT 499, unidentified, IRT 794j; below, IRT 507, IRT 660: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.7)