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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0267. Fragmentary dedication to Attis

Description: Upper part of a rectangular base (w: 0.38 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.39, height incomplete) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.15 x h: 0.23, height incomplete).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.035.

Date: Probably second to mid-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Formerly in Homs Museum, now in Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Attini deo
Flauia Pro-
cu[l]a ob me-
[m]oriam
5[c. 5]ạsiụ[.]
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Diplomatic

ATTINIDEO
FLAUIAPRO
CU[.]AOBME
[.]ORIAM
5[·····].SI.[·]
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the god Attis; Flavia Procula, in memory of [---]

Commentary

Line 2-3. Flavia Procula. See also 641 , 11. 2- 3.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 87, whence AE 1926.156; IRT, 1952, 267, whence IRT, 2009, 267, whence EDH 025519; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. From left: Above, 719, 656, 677; below: 828, 267, 672: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR