611. Fragmentary honours
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 1.30 x h: 1.60 x d: 1.30) broken above.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face (die, w: 1.02 x h: 0.73); the text has subsequently been partially erased.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, West side.
- 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"
/>
<del>
</del>
Praecipuae
nobilitatis
ac
<expan>
<abbr>
uirtut
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="13"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
perpensae
iustitiae
<lb
n="3"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="7"
unit="character"
extentmax="8"
/>
aeque
sinceritatis
adque
<lb
n="4"
/>
<del>
i
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
n
</supplied>
co
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
parabilis
prudentiae
uiro
</del>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
id="line1"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<del>
</del>
patrono
ob
plurima
<unclear
reason=""
>
in
</unclear>
se
p
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
o
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
u
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
sio
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nes
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
id="gap1"
/>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
o
<unclear
reason=""
>
Lepcimagnenses
</unclear>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<del>
<unclear
reason=""
>
pu
</unclear>
bli
<unclear
reason=""
>
</del>
ce
</unclear>
2, Perhaps CA[···]IVMSI[·] et perpensae iustitiae.
Translation:
(All erased although most of the text is legible.) To a man of especial nobility and virtue, [·· ? ··], perpetual justice, [·· ? ··] and [·· ? ··] sincerity, moreover one of incomparable prudence [·· ? ··], their patron, the Lepcimagnensians (set this up) publicly, on account of his very extensive care for them [·· ? ··].
Commentary:
No comment.
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