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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0799a. Mason's mark

Description: Pentelic white marble locust-and-acanthus capital.
Text: Inscribed on the underside
Letters: 0.02-0.11.

Date: Late second - early third century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum: the forum-porticoes and of the engaged orders in the East Portico and in the tabernae opening off the East portico.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: No longer visible (1950); read from a cast in the Superintendency.

Interpretive

Αἰμενίου

Diplomatic

ΑΙΜΕΝΙΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Of Aimenios

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.a, whence Ward-Perkins, 1951 93.1, PHI 189530, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648.

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 93)