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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0985. Fragment

Description: Fragment, probably from the top of a marble panel (w: 0.155 x h: 0.09 x d: 0.018).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.055; line 2, not measurable.

Date: First-fourth centuries CE

Findspot: Coastal Belt: Oliveti; Found in 1949 (map ref. L 1359)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

[---uetusta]te dilapsum [---]
[---]ṛum p̣ṛọ[---]

Diplomatic

[---.......]TEDILAPSUM[---]
[---].UM...[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] fallen down because of its age [---]

Commentary

The upper part only of the letters survives; the dotted letters could in each case be B, P, or R.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.13, whence IRT, 2009, 985, whence EDH 059823

Images

None available (2021).