725. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:
Moulded base(w: 0.60 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.60) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.31 x h: 0.59); the surface badly damaged.  
Letters:
Capitals, third or fourth century A.D.: 0.03-0.035; last line: 0.05  
Date:
Third or fourth century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, in the palestra in front of the main entrance.  
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) 
[·· ? ··]uita[···]
[·· ? ··] Q(uinto) Marci-
[o·· ? ··?] Asperọ
po[·· 4··]ṚON[·]
5pa[···]issim[o]
[·· ? ··]D[·· ? ··?]
[·· ? ··?]M[·]N
[·]O[···]S sua
pẹcunia po-
10suerunt
[·· ? ··]VITA[···]
[·· ? ··]QMARCI
[···· ? ··?]ASPER·
PO[·· 4··]·ON[·]
5PA[···]ISSIM[··]
[·· ? ··]D[·· ? ··?]
[·· ? ··?]M[·]N
[·]O[···]SSVA
P·CVNIAPO
10SVERVNT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
uita
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Marci
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
Asper
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
<lb n="4" />
po
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
on
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
pa
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
issim
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
d
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap2" />
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap3" />
<orig >
m
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
n
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
o
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig >
s
</orig>
sua
<lb n="9" />
p
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
cunia
po
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
suerunt
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to Quintus Marcius [·· ? ··] Asper [·· ? ··] to a most dutiful fa[ther·· ? ··] erected (subject plural) at their own expense.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.6)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.5)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.5)

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