98. Honours for a Flavian officer
- Description:
- Four blocks (each w: 0.85-95 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.40) of sand-stone, once stuccoed.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.14.
- Date:
- Flavian (reign)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Church III (Reg. III, ins. 4), found re-used in the N wall of the N baptistry and now lying loose nearby.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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)
a, b, c
[·· ? ··]e [Au(- - -)]g(usti)
[V]ẹsp̣ạsiaṇị ex
quinq[ue decuriis ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] donis mịḷitaribus do[nat ·· ? ··]
d
quinq[ue decuriis ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] donis mịḷitaribus do[nat ·· ? ··]
a, b, cd
<div
type="textpart"
n="a, b, c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
e
<expan>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<abbr>
</supplied>
Au
</abbr>
<abbr>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
V
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
s
<unclear
reason=""
>
pa
</unclear>
sia
<unclear
reason=""
>
ni
</unclear>
ex
<lb
n="2"
/>
quinq
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ue
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
decuriis
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
donis
m
<unclear
reason=""
>
il
</unclear>
itaribus
do
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nat
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Af
</supplied>
ricae
so
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
emor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
a
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
a, b and c: [·· ? ··] of Vespasian Augustus, a member of the five [decuries](of jurymen at Rome)[·· ? ··], awarded military honours [·· ? ··].
d. [·· ? ··] of Africa [·· ? ·· ·· ? ··]? in memory[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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