102. Honours for a third/fourth century praeses

Description:
Fragment from the lower right-hand corner of a moulded marble base, (w: 0.30 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.60). Measurements incomplete. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third to fourth centuries A.D. Capitals: 0.045-0.055. 
Date:
Third to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering, titulature) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Forum area, forum, in the North Portico.  
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) 
[·· ? ·· pr]aesidi
[prou(inciae) Trip(olitanae) ordo] et plebs
[·· ? ·· Sabra]th(ensium) patron[o]
[praestantis]simo staṭụ[am]
5 [·· ? ·· cura]ṇte Pompe[io]
[·· ? ··] ịo u(iro) p(erfectissimo) cu[ratore]
[rei] publ(icae)
[·· ? ·····]AESIDI
[··········]ETPLEBS
[·· ? ········]THPATRON[··]
[············]SIMOSTA··[···]
5[·· ? ·······]·TEPOMPE[···]
[·· ? ··]·OVPCV[·······]
[····]PVBL
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
pr
</supplied>
aesidi
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
prou
</abbr>
<ex>
inciae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Trip
</abbr>
<ex>
olitanae
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ordo
</supplied>
et
plebs
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" extentmax="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sabra
</supplied>
th
</abbr>
<ex>
ensium
</ex>
</expan>
patron
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
praestantis
</supplied>
simo
sta
<unclear reason="" >
tu
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
am
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" extentmax="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
cura
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
te
Pompe
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" extentmax="6" />
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimo
</ex>
</expan>
cu
<supplied reason="lost" >
ratore
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
rei
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
icae
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] governor [of the province of Tripolitania, the city council] and the people [·· ? ··] of the Sabrathans, to an outstanding patron, a statue [·· ? ··]; Pompeius [·· ? ··], excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status), curator of the republic, took charge [of its erection.]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 905 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 905 Leica)

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