527. Fragmentary honours

Description:
Block (w: 1.05 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.51) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face; apparently uniform with 528. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: from top of block, l.1, 0.03-0.12; l.2, 0.15-0.23; l.3, 0.27-0.33; l.4, 0.35-0.40; l.5, 0.42-0.47; to bottom, 0.51. 
Date:
After A.D. 81, before A.D. 94 (titulature, prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the Baptistry. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ịani prouinciae
[·· ? ·· trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) V A]laudae IIIIuir(o) uiar(um)
[cur(andarum) ·· ? ·· praef(ecto) auxiliorum omnium aduersus Germ]anos donis donato
[ab Imp(eratore) Vespasiano Aug(usto) et T(ito) Aug(usti) f(ilio) ·· ? ·· hastis puri]s duabus uexillis duob(us)
5[·· ? ·· adlecto] inter patricios
[---]
[·· ? ··]·ANIPROVINCIAE
[·· ? ·················]LAVDAEIIIIVIRVIAR
[······ ? ·············]ANOSDONISDONATO
[····· ? ··············]SDVABVSVEXILLISDVOB
5[·· ? ··········]INTERPATRICIOS
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
i
</unclear>
ani
prouinciae
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
uno
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
mil
</abbr>
<ex>
itum
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ionis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
A
</supplied>
laudae
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
uir
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
uiar
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
cur
</abbr>
<ex>
andarum
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
praef
</abbr>
<ex>
ecto
</ex>
</expan>
auxiliorum
omnium
aduersus
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Germ
</supplied>
anos
donis
donato
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ab
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
Vespasiano
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
hastis
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
puri
</supplied>
s
duabus
uexillis
<expan>
<abbr>
duob
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
adlecto
</supplied>
inter
patricios
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ·· the·· ? ··]iani of the province. To [·· ? ·· , military tribune of legion V] Alaudae, member of the committee of four in charge of road maintenance (in Italy) [·· ? ·· prefect of all the auxiliary troops assembled against the Germ]ans, awarded military honours [by Emperor Vespasian Augustus and Titus son of Augustus, ·· ? ··] two [silver spears], two banners, [·· ? ·· adlected] into patrician status [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. The military tribune is possibly Cn. Domitius Lucanus, cos. suff. unattested, procos. Africae not long before 94, PIR (2) D 152. Note however the discrepancy in the number of hastae purae and vexilla attributed to him here and in ILS 990. In PIR, loc. cit., it is suggested that fragments published in Riv. Trip. II (1925-6) 69, L'Ann. Ep. 1926, 155 and CIL VIII, 8 may refer to Lucanus or his brother Tullus. In fact these all belong to 342 and the Cn. Domitius concerned is Cn. Domitius Ponticus.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 757)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 757)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.22)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.22)

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