111. Honours for L. Aemilius Quintus.

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.75 x h: 1.40 x d: 0.70). 
Text:
Reinscribed on one face, from which a previous inscription has been erased. The first line is cut above the die 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.07; 0.04-0.05. Height not complete. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Curia, in situ in front of the entrance.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:36; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:149. 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) 
L(uci) Aemili Quinti fl(aminis) p̣(er)p̣(etui)
quod laborem continu<u>m
pro prouinciae suae
necessitate sustinuit
5et quod miserias com-
munes sacris aurib(us)
intimabit et remedium
meruit ordo et popul(us)
splendidae col(oniae) Sabrat(hensis)
10secundum decreta totius
prouinc(iae) dedic(auerunt) cur(ante)
Fl(auio) Venantio
LAEMILIQVINTIFL··
QVODLABOREMCONTINV<V>M
PROPROVINCIAESVAE
NECESSITATESVSTINVIT
5ETQVODMISERIASCOM
MVNESSACRISAVRIB
INTIMABITETREMEDIVM
MERVITORDOETPOPVL
SPLENDIDAECOLSABRAT
10SECVNDVMDECRETATOTIVS
PROVINCDEDICCVR
FLVENANTIO
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<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Aemili
Quinti
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
aminis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
etui
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
quod
laborem
continu
<supplied reason="omitted" >
u
</supplied>
m
<lb n="3" />
pro
prouinciae
suae
<lb n="4" />
necessitate
sustinuit
<lb n="5" />
et
quod
miserias
com
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
munes
sacris
<expan>
<abbr>
aurib
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
intimabit
et
remedium
<lb n="8" />
meruit
ordo
et
<expan>
<abbr>
popul
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
splendidae
<expan>
<abbr>
col
</abbr>
<ex>
oniae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sabrat
</abbr>
<ex>
hensis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
secundum
decreta
totius
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
prouinc
</abbr>
<ex>
iae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
dedic
</abbr>
<ex>
auerunt
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
cur
</abbr>
<ex>
ante
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="12" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
Venantio
</ab>

Translation:

(In honour) of Lucius Aemilius Quintus, perpetual flamen (priest), because he made continual effort to meet the needs of his province and because he brought its shared misfortunes to the sacred (i.e. imperial) ears and obtained a remedy; the city council and the people of the splendid colony of Sabratha, in accordance with the decrees of the whole province, dedicated (this); Flavius Venantius took charge (of the work).

Commentary:

l. 1 L(ucius) Aemilius Quintus. Also in CIL VIII 27, ll. 1, 6-10, at Gigthis, dated between 383 and 388; and in 588, ll. 1- 6.

l. 8. See also CIL VIII 27, ll. 6-8, ob meritum magnific(a)e legationis quam pro uoto totius prouinciae executus est; and 588, ll. 2-4.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 309)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 309)

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