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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0799o. 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: Findspot

Interpretive

Ϲοφια<νοῦ?>

Diplomatic

ϹΟΦΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sophia( ?)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sophia(nos)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.o, whence Ward-Perkins, 1951 93.2, 94, PHI 189550, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648.

Images

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