583. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.30 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.28) of compact grey limestone, badly damaged.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w: 0.20 x h: 0.21, left-hand and lower edges only preserved).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: av. 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ecim-
</ex>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
S
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
enturio
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ionis
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
Traian
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ae
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
quam
ab
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
are
</ex>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
T
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
raiano
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
Hadriano
<expan>
<abbr>
Au
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
g
</supplied>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
o
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
r
</unclear>
dinis
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="7"
/>
patri
Gem
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··to] Decimus S[·· ? ··] centurion of Legion two Traiana [·· ? ··] which [·· ? ··] by emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus [·· ? ··] of the city council [·· ? ··] to ?his father Gem[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
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