WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0723. Fragment

Description: Left-hand portion of a marble panel (surviving, w: 0.30 x h: 0.305).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: First to fifth centuries CE (terminology)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

τὰ τέκνα Τ[c. 2]
Μαειδάδου
τῶν εἰδ̣[c. 4]
ΤΙΛΙ[c. 8]
5ἀν[έστησεν]

Diplomatic

ΤΑΤΕΚΝΑΤ[··]
ΜΑΕΙΔΑΔΟΥ
ΤΩΝΕΙ.[····]
ΤΙΛΙ[········]
5ΑΝ[.......]

1: τ[οῦ IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

The children of Maeidadus (?), of the (plural) [---] set up.

Commentary

Line 3-4: Robert (loc.cit.) suggests a possible reference to the Ides of July.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 723, whence PHI 189524, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, 202, whence PHI 189525; IRT, 2009, 723, whence EDH 059572; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: IRT 723, IRT 311; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.7)