907. Fragmentary votive text
- Description:
- Fragmentary panel (w: 0.29 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.10) of pink limestone. Not seen.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.045.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Ghadames: Found at an unidentified site in, or about, 1948
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Subsequently transported to Tunis
- Bibliography:
- G-Ch. Picard and Ch. Saumagne, Karthago, II:105ff. 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:
- Here reproduced from a copy furnished by M. G.-Ch. Picard
5, Rather than c[o(n)s(ule)...] (so Picard and Saumagne); see 908.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] stationed ?in the forecamp at Cydamae; they paid their vow willingly under Valerius Senecio, legate of Augustus with propraetorian powers, splendid man( of senatorial status) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See G-Ch. Picard, Castellum Dimmidi (Alger-Paris. 1948) 181, no. 4 and 189, no. 14.
Ghadàmes; previously recorded as Cidamus or Cydamus (Pliny, HN V. 35, 36) and Κιδαμή (Procopius, De Aedif. VI. iii. 9); see PW XI 378. The correct form would seem rather to be Cidamae or Cydamae.
M. Valerius Senecio, legatus in Numidia under Caracalla; PIR (1) V 130.
- Photographs:
- none.
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