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113. Honours for Numerius Avitus

Description:: The upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.83 x h: 0.62).
Text:: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters:: Late second to third centuries A.D. lapidary capitals: 0.07-0.08.
Date:: Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see 1, note 1.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:
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)

P̣(ublio) [·· 4-5··]o P(ubli) f(ilio) G̣[a]leria (tribu)
Maximo Numerio
Auito V G̣ C V
rarissimo
5Sabrathenses
pub[l]ice
patrono
[---]

·[·· 4-5··]OPF·[··]LERIA
MAXIMONVMERIO
AVITOV·CV
RARISSIMO
5SABRATHENSES
PVB[··]ICE
PATRONO
[---]

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

</unclear>

</abbr>

<ex>

ublio

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ubli

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ilio

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

</supplied>

leria

<expan>

<ex>

tribu

</ex>

</expan>

Maximo

Numerio

Auito

<orig >

</orig>

<orig >

</unclear>

</orig>

<orig >

</orig>

<orig >

</orig>

rarissimo

Sabrathenses

pub

</supplied>

ice

patrono

</ab>

1, Perhaps P(ublio) Alfio

3, Perhaps u(iro) c(larissimo) cu(ratori).

Translation:

To Publius [?Alfius] Maximus Numerius Avitus son of Publius, of the Roman voting tribe Galeria, excellent man (i.e. roman Senator) curator, most remarkable; the people of Sabratha publicly to a patron [·· ? ··]