552. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Fragments of white marble, all possibly but not certainly from the same panel.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Second to third century capitals: l. 1, 0.065; l. 2, 0.06, remainder, 0.055. a) w: 0.36 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.025, lower edge; b) w: 0.18 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.025, left-hand edge; c) w: 0.15 x h: 0.085 x d: 0.025, lower edge. d) w: 0.10 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.025, upper edge. e) w: 0.09 x h: 0.065 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving.
- Date:
- A.D. 162-164 A.D. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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)
a + b + c
[·· ? ··]ano[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) ·· ? ·· e]t II Adiutr(icis) p(iae) f̣(idelis) [·· ? ··]
do[nis donato ab imp(eratoribus) Ant]onino et Vero [Aug(ustis) ·· ? ··]
uex(ill-) a[rgente ·· ? ·· et corona uall]ari et cor(ona) mur(ali) q(uaestori) p[·· ? ··]
5 act[·· ? ··] Lepcita[ni ·· ? ··] ob libe[ralitates ·· ? ··]
de
[·· ? ·· trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) ·· ? ·· e]t II Adiutr(icis) p(iae) f̣(idelis) [·· ? ··]
do[nis donato ab imp(eratoribus) Ant]onino et Vero [Aug(ustis) ·· ? ··]
uex(ill-) a[rgente ·· ? ·· et corona uall]ari et cor(ona) mur(ali) q(uaestori) p[·· ? ··]
5 act[·· ? ··] Lepcita[ni ·· ? ··] ob libe[ralitates ·· ? ··]
a + b + c
[·· ? ··]ANO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········· ? ····]TIIADIVTRP·[·· ? ··]
DO[······················]ONINOETVERO[······ ? ··]
VEXA[········· ? ·················]ARIETCORMVRQP[·· ? ··]
5ACT[·· ? ··]LEPCITA[····· ? ··]OBLIBE[············ ? ··]
de
[·· ? ········· ? ····]TIIADIVTRP·[·· ? ··]
DO[······················]ONINOETVERO[······ ? ··]
VEXA[········· ? ·················]ARIETCORMVRQP[·· ? ··]
5ACT[·· ? ··]LEPCITA[····· ? ··]OBLIBE[············ ? ··]
<div
type="textpart"
n="a + b + c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ano
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uno
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
mil
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
itum
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ionis
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
t
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiutr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
icis
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</abbr>
f
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
idelis
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
do
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nis
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
donato
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ab
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoribus
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ant
</supplied>
onino
et
Vero
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ustis
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
uex
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ill
</ex>
a
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rgente
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
et
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
corona
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
uall
</supplied>
ari
et
<expan>
<abbr>
cor
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ona
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
mur
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ali
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uaestori
</ex>
p
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
act
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Lepcita
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ni
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ob
libe
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ralitates
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="d"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
ha
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
t
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="e"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
pro
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
a.+.b.+.c.5, Perhaps praeposito actis senatus.
Translation:
(a+b+c) [To·· ? ··]anus [·· ? ··] military tribune in legion [·· ? ··] and II adiutrix Pia Fidelis [·· ? ··awarded military] honours [by emperors] Antoninus and Verus [Augusti·· ? ··] a silver banner, [·· ? ··] a crown for breaching a rampart, a crown for breaching a wall, quaestor [·· ? ··], the Lepcitanians (set this up) on account of his generosity.
(d. and e.) not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
a-c, 3: imperatores Antoninus et Verus: presumably in the Parthian war of 162-164.
Photographs:
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