123. Honours for C. Flavius Pudens

Description:
Lower left-hand corner of a rectangular base (surviving, w: 0.45 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.29) of coarse grey limestone, uniform with 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, surviving width 0.31). 
Letters:
Local second to third century capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.045. 
Date:
Second to third centuries (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Forum area, loose beside the N entrance to the Basilica. 
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) 
[C(aio) Fl(auio) Q(uinti) fil(io) Pap(iria tribu)]
[Pudenti]
[flam(ini) perpet(uo)]
[Cu]ria Mer-
5curi ob me-
rita
[··]
[········]
[·····]
[···]RIAMER
5CVRIOBME
RITA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
io
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pudenti
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
perpet
</abbr>
<ex>
uo
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cu
</supplied>
ria
Mer
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
curi
ob
me
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
rita
</ab>

Translation:

[To Caius Flavius Pudens, son of Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, perpetual flamen] (priest), the Curia Mercuri, on account of his merits.

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Caius Flauius Pudens. Also in 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIX.34)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIX.34)

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