574. Honours for Laenatius Romulus
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.58 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.58).
- Text:
- Reinscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.88), from which a previous inscription has been erased; the first word is cut above the die, and the last line below it.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.08; remainder, 0.05.
- Date:
- 317 A.D. (prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, central exedra.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia: Rendiconti XV:113 ff., fig. 2; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:38. 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)
13, sufragio: sic
Translation:
(In honour) of Romulius. On account of the great moderation of his judgements and advantageous foresight and good fortune of his arrival (among us), they (the Lepcitanians) set (this) up to Laenatius Romulus, excellent man (of equestrian status), governor of the province of Tripolitania, in accordance with a vote of the most peaceful people and a decree of the most splendid city council, at their own expense.
Commentary:
l.10: Praeses c. 317, see Aurigemma, loc. cit.; also in 101, ll. 1-8; 467, l. 7; 468, l. 10.
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