531. Honours for G. Gauius Macer

Description:
Monumental base of grey limestone masonry. 
Text:
Inscribed on one long side within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 0.55 x h: 0.32).  
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.06. 
Date:
First century A.D. (context, lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus; South West angle of Reg. III, ins. 8, beside the main street. The lay-out of this insula, probably Julio-Claudian, conforms to the site of, and is presumably later than, the monument. 
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) 
G(aio) Gauio Macro
leg(ato) pro pr(aetore) III
Lepcitani publice
GGAVIOMACRO
LEGPROPRIII
LEPCITANIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
G
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Gauio
Macro
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ato
</ex>
</expan>
pro
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<lb n="3" />
Lepcitani
publice
</ab>

Translation:

To Caius Gavius Macer, propraetorian legate for a third year, the Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 578)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 578)

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