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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1339. Seat inscriptions

Description: Seventeen limestone seats, damaged or broken: w: 8.22 x h: 0.68 x d: 0.09-0.24
Text: Inscribed in one line on the upper face
Letters: Seats 1-6, 0.25-0.39; seats 7-11, 0.07-0.14; seats 12-17, 0.24-0.37

Date: Early fourth century CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Road from the Circus to the Port, Amphitheatre: east section of podium, first row of seats.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[H]eracliorum | Ϲε | ρή | ( vac. ) | ν | ου | Ba | re | a A | rm | e- | NT | [---]

Diplomatic

[.]ERACLIORUM | ϹΕ | ΡΗ |        | Ν | ΟΥ | BA | RE | AA | RM | E | NT | [---]

1: Bareaarum E . . . NT Pellegrino, 2018

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(scil. Place) of the Heraclii; (scil. Place) of Serenus; Barea Arme[- . . .

Bibliography: Pellegrino, 2018, 222-228, 1-17, whence EDCS 81300092, AE, 2018.1870, with the readings of G. Di Vita-Évrard and K. Marmouri, whence this text.

Images

   Fig. 1. Seat 7 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 2. Seat 8 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 3. Seats 10-11 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 4. Seats 10-12 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 5. Seats 12-13 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 6. Seats 13-14 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 7. Seats 13-15 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 8. Seats 14-16 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 9. Seats 15-17 (Tantillo, 2004)

   Fig. 10. Seat 17 (Tantillo, 2004)