WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0808. Panel fragments

Description: Two fragments from a panel of white marble. a) w: 0.19 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.015, from the right edge. b) w: 0.05 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving.
Text: Inscribed within an incised border. There are traces of red paint in the letters.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals, roughly incised: 0.045-0.05; marks above the abbreviations.

Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus, near the Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]EPONI
[---flamin-] p(er)(petu)- ((stop)) cura
[------]
b
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]rum SEỊ[---]
[---]s u(ir)- p(erfectissim)[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

a
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]EPONI
[---......]P CURA
[------]
b
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]RUMSE.[---]
[---]SUP[---]
[------]

a.2: [·· ? ··]PPcura IRT, 1952
b.2: [·· ? ··]STTPA[·· ? ··] IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a)[---](line 2) [---]with/under the care (ablative ?); (b) not usefully translatable.

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 16.2.29; IRT, 1952, 808, whence IRT, 2009, 808; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 80, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059658; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: IRT 498; above, IRT 1047, IRT 808a; below, IRT 513, IRT 808b; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.23)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above: 769, 771; Below: 808.a 659, 623.b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.6)