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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0799l. Mason's mark

Description: Pentelic white marble locust-and-acanthus capital.
Text: Inscribed on the underside; i at 90 degrees to ii.
Letters: 0.02-0.11.

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

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio IV, 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: Findspot

Interpretive

i
Ϲαϲ̣[...]νίου
Ϲοφ[ι]ανοῦ
ii
Ϲοφ-
Ελ[.]

Diplomatic

i
ϹΑ.[···]ΝΙΟΥ
ϹΟΦ[.]ΑΝΟΥ
ii
ϹΟΦ
ΕΛ[·]

i.2: ΣΟΦΑΝΟΥ IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(i) Of Sas[ . . . ]nios. Sophanos. (ii) El[---] of Soph(anos?)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i) Of Sas[ . . . ]nios. Soph[i]anos. (ii) EL[.] Soph(ianos?)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.l, whence Ward-Perkins, 1951 92.1, PHI i: 189546, ii: 189547, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.,

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 92)