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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0799r. Mason's mark

Description: Pentelic white marble locust-and-acanthus capital.
Text: Inscribed on the underside.
Letters: 0.02-0.11; i in a smaller hand than ii.

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

i
[---]ω νεωτέρου
ii
-θεοϲ νε(ώτεροϲ?)

Diplomatic

i
[---]ΩΝΕΩΤΕΡΟΥ
ii
ΘΕΟϹΝΕ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---]o Neoteros (name or the younger) [---]-theos Er(?)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.r, Ward-Perkins, 1951 92.2, 94, whence PHI 189553, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.,

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.27)

   Fig. 2. Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 92)