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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0822. Fragment

Description: Fragment from the right-hand upper corner of a rough marble panel (w: 0.55 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.96).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Very rough incised capitals, with one uncial E: line 1, av. 0.09; line 2, av. 0.04.

Date: First-sixth centuries CE

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

[---] SIIISEUUCXUS
[---]EMSḌEXACCISX
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Diplomatic

[---]SIIISEUUCXUS
[---]EMS.EXACCISX
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translateable.)

Commentary

Both lines seem to end with figures (one hundred and fifteen, and ten).

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 822, whence IRT, 2009, 822, whence EDH 059673; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 810, 505, 733; below 822: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.11)