315a. Dedication to Venus

Description:
Hexagonal base of grey limestone (faces h: 0.20) of which the crowning feature has been roughly cut back. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel, curved at the top and squared at the foot (die w: 0.14 x h: 0.52). Each of the remaining five faces is ornamented with a recessed panel, curved at the top and shaped at the foot, within which is carved in relief one of the following symbols (from right to left, starting at the inscribed face): a caduceus; a group of three flagella(?); a jug; a folded flagellum (?); and a purse (?). 
Letters:
Second century A.D.; 0.04-0.025. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: House in Homs, formerly the Carabinieri Barracks. Found during restorations in 1949-1950. It had been re-used to support an arch in the house. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Fasti Archaeologici IV (1949) 3985. 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) 
Num(ini)
Veneris Ad-
quisitricis
Aug(ustae) sacrum
5Iucundus
Aug(usti) n(ostri) uer-
na uegtigalis (sic)
IIII p(ublicorum) A(fricae) uil(icus)
Lepcis mag(nae)
10terrestris
d(e) s(uo) p(osuit)
NVM
VENERISAD
QVISITRICIS
AVGSACRVM
5IVCVNDVS
AVGNVER
NAVEGTIGALIS(sic)
IIIIPAVIL
LEPCISMAG
10TERRESTRIS
DSP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Num
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Veneris
Ad
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
quisitricis
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
sacrum
<lb n="5" />
Iucundus
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostri
</ex>
</expan>
uer
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
na
uegtigalis
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="8" />
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ublicorum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
A
</abbr>
<ex>
fricae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
uil
</abbr>
<ex>
icus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
Lepcis
<expan>
<abbr>
mag
</abbr>
<ex>
nae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
terrestris
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the divine power of Venus the Acquirer, Augusta; Jucundus, home-born slave of our Augustus, in charge of the collection of the four public revenues of Africa for land-borne goods, set this up at his own expense.

Commentary:

On publicorum Africae, see also 432.

To vilicus terrestris, compare vilicus maritimus, 302

Photographs:
none.

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