603. Honours for Porfyrius
- Description:
- Tetrapylon statue base of rough grey-brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front face within a recessed rectangular panel (die, w: 1.18 x h: 0.36) which has been cut into an earlier tabella ansata. The sculptured ornament of the tetrapylon belongs to the earlier, erased inscription.
- Letters:
- Late form of Rustic capitals, av. 0.055.
- Date:
- Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the courtyard near the limestone market-building.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Rostovtzev, Storia Economica e Sociale dell'Impero Romano, 1933, 386, pl. LXVI, 2 Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VII:82 ff., figs. 17, 18 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1942-43, 4 This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Amatori
patriae
et
ciuium
suor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
um
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
qu
</supplied>
od
indul
<unclear
reason=""
>
genti
</unclear>
a
sacra
<lb
n="2"
/>
ciuibus
suis
feras
dentatas
quattuor
uiuas
donauit
<lb
n="3"
/>
ex
decreto
splendidissimi
ordinis
bigam
<expan>
<abbr>
decreu
</abbr>
<ex>
eru
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
nt
</abbr>
<lb
n="4"
/>
Porfyri
Porfyri
</ab>
Translation:
To a lover of his country and of his fellow-citizens, because by the emperor's concession he presented to his fellow-citizens four living tusked beasts (elephants). By decree of the most splendid city council they voted a two-horse chariot. (In honour) of Porfyrius, of Porfyrius.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 45)
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