559. Honours for Aurelius Sempronius Serenus

Description:
The upper part of a rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.43, height incomplete) of white marble once inscribed on all four sides. 558 is inscribed on the opposite face. Two sides subsequently erased.  
Text:
On the front inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.32 x ), the first line is cut above the die.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals 0.035. l. 1 is decapitated.  
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering.)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, in the second taberna North of the entrance to the Basilica.  
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) 
Ḍuṛp̣ii
Aur(elio) Sempronio Sereno
eq(uiti) R(omano) principali Alexandr(iae)
ob insigne et admirabile
5studiorum ingenium
praeter dec(urionatus) honorem
[e]t statuam apud se conloc-
[atam] apud Lepcimag-
[nenses ·· ? ··]
·V··II
AVRSEMPRONIOSERENO
EQRPRINCIPALIALEXANDR
OBINSIGNEETADMIRABILE
5STVDIORVMINGENIVM
PRAETERDECCHONOREM
[··]TSTATVAMAPVDSECONLOC
[·····]APVDLEPCIMAG
[········· ? ··]
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<lb n="1" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
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</unclear>
u
<unclear reason="damage" >
rp
</unclear>
ii
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aur
</abbr>
<ex>
elio
</ex>
</expan>
Sempronio
Sereno
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
eq
</abbr>
<ex>
uiti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
R
</abbr>
<ex>
omano
</ex>
</expan>
principali
<expan>
<abbr>
Alexandr
</abbr>
<ex>
iae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
ob
insigne
et
admirabile
<lb n="5" />
studiorum
ingenium
<lb n="6" />
praeter
<expan>
<abbr>
dec
<am>
c
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
urionatus
</ex>
</expan>
honorem
<lb n="7" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
t
statuam
apud
se
conloc
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
atam
</supplied>
apud
Lepcimag
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
nenses
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

6, DECC.

Translation:

(In honour) of Durpius. To Aurelius Sempronius Severus, Roman Knight, leading citizen of Alexandria, on account of the distinguished and admirable quality of his activities, in addition to tenures of the decurionate and a statue set up in his own city, among the people of Lepcis Magna [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 936)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 936)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1548 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1548 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1550 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1550 Leica)

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