WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0500. Fragments

Description: Two fragments (w: 0.15 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.06 and w: 0.18 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.065, no edges surviving), probably from the same marble panel.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.095.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum; found in 1947.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[---]Ị diui N[eruae?---]
a
[--- Sep]timiạ [---]
[---]Ẹ ẸỌ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---].DIUIN[.....---]
a
[---...]TIMI.[---]
[---]...[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. [---] of deified N[erva---]

b. [---] Septimia [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 500, whence IRT, 2009, 500, whence EDH 059393; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 449, 500: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.14)