Description: Three fragments of coarse-grained brown limestone, all probably from the same panel or base,
inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata. a) w:
0.23 x h:
0.17 x d:
0.09 . Moulding survives at the left-hand edge and apparently includes the angle of the lower juncture of the ansa with the
panel. b) w:
0.27 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.055 . No edges. c) w:
0.18 x h:
0.18 x d:
0.055 . Moulding survives below the lettering, at an acute angle to it; the fragment appears to be from the lower part of
the right ansa, into which the lettering has encroached.
Text: Inscribed within tabella ansata. Inscribed surface: a) w:
0.23 x h:
0.17; b) w:
0.27 x h:
0.12; c) w:
0.18 x h:
0.18.
Letters: Rustic capitals, probably third century: 0.065-0.07.
Date: Probably third century (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
In one of the tabernae of the East Portico of the Forum Severianum (1955).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) [---] the people of Lepcis (case unknown) [---]
(b) [---]?lover of his/her country [---]
(c) [---]singular (?remarkable: case and number unknown) [---]
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.6, whence IRT, 2009, 979, whence EDH 059817
Images
None available (2021).