305. Dedication to Neptune Augustus
- Description:
- Left half of a rectangular base (w: 0.39 x h: 0.74 x d: 0.68) of yellow limestone marked with red; inscribed on one face. One line in lightly inscribed Neo- Punic (not yet deciphered in 1952) follows the Latin text. The Neo-Punic inscription is unpublished and may include the name (not otherwise attested in Phoenician onomastics) Atarba'al or Ittarba'al. See Introduction.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 1. l, 0.075; 1. 2, 0.07, I1. 4- 5, 0.045.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the South West 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Neptu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
no
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
ac
</supplied>
<ex>
</expan>
rum
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aius
</ex>
Sossius
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
nus
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
u
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ir
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
de
sua
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pecunia
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
posuit
</supplied>
5, Presumably quinq(uennalicia) pot(estate) or aed(ilicia) pot(estate). IIII´viri are not otherwise rewarded at Lepcis.
Translation:
Sacred to Neptune Augustus, Caius Sossius [·· ? ··]nus, quattuor-vir with [·· ? ··] powers, (set this up) at his own expense.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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