480. Honours for Ortygius
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.56 x h: 1.20 x d: 0.56) of coarse brown limestone, with volutes at the upper angles.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, the first word cut above the die; there are formal sprays at the beginning of ll. 2 and 7 and the end of ll. 2 and 3, and ivy leaves at the end of ll. 4 and 7.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 408-423 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South East angle.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III 1954. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
florentissimis saeculis
d(ominorum) n(ostrorum) Honori et Theodosii
p(atrum) p(atriae) semper Augustorum
5 Fl(auio) Ortygio u(iro) c(larissimo) SPPO com(iti) et duci p(rouinciae) T(ripolitanae)
ob insignia meritorum et labore(m)
fidemque exhibitam
Austurianorum rabie repressa
ordo splendidissimus et populus
10 Lepcimag(nensis) c̣ịụịṭạ[tis] p̣ụḅḷịc̣ẹ
3, DD NN.
8, Perhaps: Austurianorum [·]abafrupraessa
8, Austurianorum rabie repressa., Degrassi citing U. Ciotti: this is correct.
Translation:
(In honour) of Ortygius.
In the flourishing times of our lords Honorius and Theodosius, father of the country, always Augusti, to Flavius Ortygius, splendid man (of senatorial status), SPPO (not understood), count and governor of the province of Tripolitania, on account of the outstanding character of his deserts and effort and good faith shown in the suppressing of the rage of the Austuriani; the most splendid city council and the people of the city of Lepcis Magna (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
l. 2. Honorius and Theodosius: Augusti 408-423.
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