732. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description:
Lower part of a moulded base (w: 0.58 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.58), of compact grey limestone, badly weathered.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.29 x h: 0.42) 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: l. 1, 0.06; l. 2, 0.04; l. 3, 0.035; remainder, 0.03. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (terminology) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Temple of Neptune; On the sea-shore, West of the temple.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 134; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:163. 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) 
[---]
2 stal((?)-) Aug(ust(?)-)
C(aius) Nerianus
Seuerus et
5 C(aius) Rustius Pudens
M[·· 11-12··]
ẸV[·· 11-12··]
[---?]
Sep[·· ? ··]
[---]
2STALAVG
CNERIANVS
SEVERVSET
5CRVSTIVSPVDENS
M[·· 11-12··]
·V[·· 11-12··]
[---?]
SEP[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
stal
</abbr>
<ex> </ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ust
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Nerianus
<lb n="4" />
Seuerus
et
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Rustius
Pudens
<lb n="6" />
<orig >
m
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="11" unit="character" extentmax="12" />
<lb n="7" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
v
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="11" unit="character" extentmax="12" />
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap1" />
<lb n="9" />
Sep
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, Not Stat(ioni) Aug(ustae), as read by Romanelli. The reading is certain.

3, Nerianus: Or Nerianius; there is a smoothed space between the N and the U which may have been left blank owing to a fault in the stone, or may have been filled by a lost letter.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] August- (case and gender unknown) Caius Nerianus Severus and Caius Rustius Pudens [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.26)

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