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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0979. Fragment

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).

Interpretive

a
sp̣ạ[---]
Lẹp̣c̣[itan?]
b
[---]ṾẠ[---]
[---]ọri patriae mị[---]
c
[---] singulari[---]

Diplomatic

a
S..[---]
L...[....]
b
[---]..[---]
[---].RIPATRIAEM.[---]
c
[---]SINGULARI[---]

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) [---]

Commentary

b.2: Perhaps amat]ori patriae, see also 95, 275, 347, 567, 603, 318.c.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.6, whence IRT, 2009, 979, whence EDH 059817

Images

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