592. Fragmentary ?honours for Cornelius Amicus

Description:
Right-hand part of a block (w: 1.05 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.40) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,w: 0.76 x h: 0.29, height incomplete).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l.1, 0.07; ll. 2-3, 0.05. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre; Found near the rear Portico, built into the North wall.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now standing on the North wall of the Portico behind the theatre. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] Cornelio Amico
[·· ? ··] flam(ini) pont(ifici)
[·· ? ·· Corn]elius Geta fratri pos(uit) p(ermissu) s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis)
[·· ? ··]CORNELIOAMICO
[·· ? ··]FLAMPONT
[·· ? ·······]ELIVSGETAFRATRIPOSPSO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Cornelio
Amico
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Corn
</supplied>
elius
Geta
fratri
<expan>
<abbr>
pos
</abbr>
<ex>
uit
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ermissu
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] Cornelius Amicus [·· ? ··] flamen (priest), pontifex (priest); Cornelius Geta set this up to his brother, with the permission of the most splendid city council.

Commentary:

l. 1. Cornelius Amicus. Perhaps also in 594, l. 3.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.11)

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