581. Fragmentary honours
- Description:
- Fragment from the left side of a marble base (w: 0.37 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.13).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded panel.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.037-0.035.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
amini
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
etuo
</ex>
pont
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ifici
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
sacerdotal
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
ob
meritum
o
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ptimi
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
eiusdem
praesi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
dis
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
ex
populi
sufr
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
agiis
</supplied>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
[To ·· ? ··], perpetual flamen (priest), pontifex(priest), ?ex-priest, [?of the province of Tripolitania] on account of the deserts of the same [best] governor; in accordance with the votes of the people [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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