590. Building inscriptions for benches

Description:
Set of nine market-benches of grey limestone, roughly uniform (av. w: 1.90 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.52). a) - d) Four alike but not all complete. . e) - f) Two alike.  
Text:
Inscribed on the front edge within a moulded border (die, w: 1.65 x h: 0.05). 
Letters:
Irregular first century A.D. capitals: 0.045. 
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Market. One of them was found re-used as a step in the main entrance to the Turkish hospital in Homs (Aurigemma, loc. cit.). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
replaced in position between the columns of the octagonal limestone building.  
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:91; N. Degrassi, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 VII:11 ff. 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) 
a-d
Ti(berius) Cl(audius) Amicus M(arcus) Heliodorius Apollonides aed(iles) mensas p(ecunia) s(ua) d(ono) d(ederunt)
e-f
Aediles s(ua) p(ecunia) d(ono) d(ederunt)
g
[Ae]dil(es) s(ua) p(ecunia) mens(as) XV d(ono) d(ederunt)
h
Aediles [·· ? ··]
i
Aedil(es) [·· ? ··]
a-d
TICLAMICVSMHELIODORIVSAPOLLONIDESAEDMENSASPSDD
e-f
AEDILESSPDD
g
[···]DILSPMENSXVDD
h
AEDILES[·· ? ··]
i
AEDIL[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a-d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
berius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Cl
</abbr>
<ex>
audius
</ex>
</expan>
Amicus
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Heliodorius
Apollonides
<expan>
<abbr>
aed
</abbr>
<ex>
iles
</ex>
</expan>
mensas
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ono
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ederunt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e-f" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Aediles
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ono
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ederunt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="g" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ae
</supplied>
dil
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
mens
</abbr>
<ex>
as
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="15" >
XV
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ono
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ederunt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="h" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Aediles
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aedil
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

g.1, XV: or XVI.

i.1, Aedil: There is a space after the first word.

Translation:

(a. to d.) Tiberius Claudius Amicus and Marcus Heliodorius Apollonides, aediles, gave the tables at their own expense.

(e. to f.) The aediles gave (this) at their own expense.

g. The aediles gave fifteen tables at their own expense.

h. The aediles [·· ? ··]

i. The aediles [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 832)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 832)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.20)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.20)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 46)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 46)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 146)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 146)

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