577. Honours for C. Valerius Vibianus

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.20 x d: 0.65). 
Text:
Reinscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.71), from which a previous inscription has been erased; the first word is cut above the die, between formal sprays; a similar spray follows the main text.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.02-0.04. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:48; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1929:4. 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) 
Obsequii
C(aio) Valerio Vibiano u(iro) p(erfectissimo)
praesidi prouinciae
Tripolitanae singula-
5ris aequitatis et benibo-
li uicoris {u} omnium uir-
tutum uiro ob tunc incipi-
entem deinceps iugem er-
ga se eius dignationem
10ordo splendidissimus Lepci-
magnensium et populus
patrono ex de(creto) s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) p(osuerent)
OBSEQVII
CVALERIOVIBIANOVP
PRAESIDIPROVINCIAE
TRIPOLITANAESINGVLA
5RISAEQVITATISETBENIBO
LIVICORIS{V}OMNIVMVIR
TVTVMVIROOBTVNCINCIPI
ENTEMDEINCEPSIVGEMER
GASEEIVSDIGNATIONEM
10ORDOSPLENDIDISSIMVSLEPCI
MAGNENSIVMETPOPVLVS
PATRONOEXDESOP
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<lb n="1" />
Obsequii
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<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Valerio
Vibiano
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
praesidi
prouinciae
<lb n="4" />
Tripolitanae
singula
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ris
aequitatis
et
benibo
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
li
uicoris
<sic >
u
</sic>
omnium
uir
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
tutum
uiro
ob
tunc
incipi
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
entem
deinceps
iugem
er
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ga
se
eius
dignationem
<lb n="10" />
ordo
splendidissimus
Lepci
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
magnensium
et
populus
<lb n="12" />
patrono
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
de
</abbr>
<ex>
creto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuerent
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

6, beniboli: sic

6, u: A badly cut character; probably V for v(iro), cut and then erased.

Translation:

(In honour) of Obsequius. To Caius Valerius Vibianus, excellent man (of equestrian status), governor of the province of Tripolitania, a man of singular equity and benevolent vigour, of every virtue, on account of his regard for them, at first beginning and subsequently continuous; the most splendid city council of the Lepcimagnensians and the people set this up to their patron, in accordance with a decree of the most spelndid city council.

Commentary:

l. 2. C. Valerius Vibianus. Also in CIL VIII, 22763 = ILS 9352, ll. 2, 3, 5.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 755)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 755)

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