263. Votive offering of building work to Asclepius

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.50) of compact brown limestone, damaged above. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.45 x h: 0.45). Line 8 is incised on the lower border. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals, probably third century A.D.: 0.03-0.04.  
Date:
Probably third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths beside the Natatio, to the South. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 125 R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 80, fig. 82; Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927, 1:308 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1925:105 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) 
P(ublius) Cornelius Attax
Marcianus
L(ucius) Appius Amicus
Rufinianus
5cur(atores) refectionis
thermarum tert(ium)
Deo Aesculapio
u(otum) s(oluerunt)
PCORNELIVSATTAX
MARCIANVS
LAPPIVSAMICVS
RVFINIANVS
5CVRREFECTIONIS
THERMARVMTERT
DEOAESCVLAPIO
VS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublius
</ex>
</expan>
Cornelius
Attax
<lb n="2" />
Marcianus
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Appius
Amicus
<lb n="4" />
Rufinianus
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
cur
</abbr>
<ex>
atores
</ex>
</expan>
refectionis
<lb n="6" />
thermarum
<expan>
<abbr>
tert
</abbr>
<ex>
ium
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
Deo
Aesculapio
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
otum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
oluerunt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

5, CVRR

6, Better than tert(iae), Romanelli, loc cit.

Translation:

Publius Cornelius Attax Marcianus (and) Lucius Appius Amicus Rufinianus, in charge for the third time of the restoration of the baths, paid their vow to the god Aesculapius.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1082)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1082)

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