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555. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:: Fragment from the lower part of a white marble panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.015).
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Rustic capitals: 0.05.
Date:: A.D. 175-180 (imperial 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)

[·· ? ··] [pr]ouinc(iae) Af[ricae ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· candi]daṭo imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) M(arci) Aureli Antonini Aug(usti) [···]
[·· ? ·· Part]hic(i) max(imi) Germ(anici) Sa[rm(atici) ·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··][···]OVINCAF[········ ? ··]
[·· ? ········]DA·OIMPCAESMAVRELIANTONINIAVG[···]
[·· ? ·······]HICMAXGERMSA[··········· ? ··]

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

</supplied>

ouinc

</abbr>

<ex>

iae

</ex>

</expan>

ricae

</supplied>

candi

</supplied>

</unclear>

<expan>

<abbr>

imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratoris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

</abbr>

<ex>

aris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arci

</ex>

</expan>

Aureli

Antonini

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usti

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Part

</supplied>

hic

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imi

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Germ

</abbr>

<ex>

anici

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

atici

</ex>

</supplied>

</expan>

</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of the province of Africa [·· ? ··], candidate of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus [·· ? ··], greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia [·· ? ··]