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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0709. Fragments

Description: Two fragments of a panel of marble, cream mottled with grey and purple. a) w: 0.13 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.01; left-hand edge.b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.06 x d: 0.01; no edges surviving.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.03.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[---]G[---]
Gran[i]- [---]
[---]Ị F[---]
b
[---]RIO[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]G[---]
GRAN[.---]
[---].F[---]
b
[---]RIO[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a) [---] Gran[i---] (case unknown)

(b) Not usefully translatable.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 709, whence IRT, 2009, 709, whence EDH 059558; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, Unidentified, 501; Middle: Unidentified, 783; Below: Unidentified, 774, 823, 749: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.4)