605. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Column-drum (diam. w: 0.51 x h: 1.16; height incomplete) of cipollino.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. Lapidary capitals. 0.075.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.
- 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="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
Aug
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
S
</unclear>
entiu
<unclear
reason=""
>
s
</unclear>
Proximus
<lb
n="3"
/>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
uir
augu
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
refect
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
et
exornata
aede
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ecunia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ua
</ex>
posuit
1, Possibly a deliberate erasure; the upper part ot the drum is mutilated.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Augustus (case unknown) [·· ? ··] Sentius Proximus, duumvir, augur (priest), erected (this) at his own expense, the shrine having been rebuilt and decorated.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 909 bis)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.15)
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