95. Honours for Gaius Anicius Fronto
- Description:
- Panel of grey marble (w: 0.67 x h: 0.54).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a narrow border (die, w: 0.55 x h: 0.54).
- Letters:
- Late second to third centuries lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.055; remainder, 0.045.
- Date:
- Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, some fragments were found in the vaults (see note on 1), and the lower left-hand part was found re-used in the late fourth century paving at the W end of the N Forum Portico (see also 23, 27, 41, 43)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Some fragments in vault of Capitolium; lower left-hand part in Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:54; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) l950:155. 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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
An
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
c
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
io
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Qu
</supplied>
ir
</abbr>
<ex>
ina
</ex>
<ex>
</expan>
tribu
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Fronto
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ni
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
equo
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ico
</ex>
o
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rnato
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
Anici
<unclear
reason=""
>
B
</unclear>
assi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
fil
</supplied>
io
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uaestori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
aedil
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
IIuir
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
o
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
IIu
</unclear>
ir
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
o
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
uin
</ex>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uennali
</ex>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
d
</supplied>
<abbr>
esig
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nato
</ex>
amatori
patriae
<lb
n="7"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
iues
ob
merita
<lb
n="8"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
cur
</supplied>
ante
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinto
</ex>
Flauio
Hiceta
Translation:
To Caius Anicius Fronto, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, honoured with a public horse, son of Anicius Bassianus, quaestor, aedile, duovir, designated quinquennial duovir, lover of his country; the citizens (set this up) on account of his merits, Quintus Flavius Hicetas was in charge (of the erection).
Commentary:
No comment.
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