567. Honours for T. Flavius Vibianus

Description:
Rectangular base of marble (w: 0.68 x h: 1.04 x d: 0.70). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.79); the last line is cut below the die.  
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:48; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1929:3; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VII:84 ff., fig. 19; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:151. 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) 
Uno eodemque anno
du(u)muiro Lepcimagn(ensium)
et sacerdoti prou(inciae) Trip(o)l(itanae)
innocentissimo uiro
5principali integerrimo
amatori patriae ac ci-
uium suorum T(ito) Flauio
Vibiano u(iro) p(erfectissimo) fl(amini) p(er)p(etuo) et pont(ifici)
cur(atori) rei pub(licae) Lepcimagn(ensis)
10sac(erdoti) Laur(entium) Lab(inatium) et sac(erdoti) M(atris) D(eum)
praef(ecto) omnium sacr(orum) ob diuersarum uolup-
tatum exhibitionem
et Libycarum ferarum X
ex populi sufragio et ordiṇ(is) d(ecreto)
VNOEODEMQVEANNO
DVMVIROLEPCIMAGN
ETSACERDOTIPROVTRIPL
INNOCENTISSIMOVIRO
5PRINCIPALIINTEGERRIMO
AMATORIPATRIAEACCI
VIVMSVORVMTFLAVIO
VIBIANOVPFLPPETPONT
CVRREIPVBLEPCIMAGN
10SACLAVRLABETSACMD
PRAEFOMNIVMSACROBDIVERSARVMVOLVP
TATVMEXHIBITIONEM
ETLIBYCARVMFERARVMX
EXPOPVLISVFRAGIOETORDI·D
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Uno
eodemque
anno
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
du
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
muiro
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepcimagn
</abbr>
<ex>
ensium
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
et
sacerdoti
<expan>
<abbr>
prou
</abbr>
<ex>
inciae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Trip
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
<abbr>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
itanae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
innocentissimo
uiro
<lb n="5" />
principali
integerrimo
<lb n="6" />
amatori
patriae
ac
ci
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
uium
suorum
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Flauio
<lb n="8" />
Vibiano
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
amini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
etuo
</ex>
</expan>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
cur
</abbr>
<ex>
atori
</ex>
</expan>
rei
<expan>
<abbr>
pub
</abbr>
<ex>
licae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepcimagn
</abbr>
<ex>
ensis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
<expan>
<abbr>
sac
</abbr>
<ex>
erdoti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Laur
</abbr>
<ex>
entium
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lab
</abbr>
<ex>
inatium
</ex>
</expan>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
sac
</abbr>
<ex>
erdoti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
atris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
eum
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
praef
</abbr>
<ex>
ecto
</ex>
</expan>
omnium
<expan>
<abbr>
sacr
</abbr>
<ex>
orum
</ex>
</expan>
ob
diuersarum
uolup
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
tatum
exhibitionem
<lb n="13" />
et
Libycarum
ferarum
<num value="10" >
X
</num>
<lb n="14" />
ex
populi
sufragio
et
<expan>
<abbr>
ordi
<unclear reason="damage" >
n
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ecreto
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

14, sufragio: sic

Translation:

To a man who was, in one and the same year, a duumvir of the Lepcimagnensians and priest of the province of Tripolitania, a most innocent man, an irreproachable leader of the city, lover of his country and of his fellow-citizens, Titus Flavius Vibianus, excellent man (of equestrian status), perpetual flamen (priest), priest of the Laurentes of Lavinas and priest of the Mother of the Gods, prefect of all sacred matters, on account of his presentation of a great variety of delights including ten Lybian beasts; (honoured) in accordance with a vote of the People and a decree of the city council.

Commentary:

ll. 7-8. T. Flauio Vibiano. Also in 568, ll. 1-11, where the signum Heraclius suggests a relationship with T. Flavius Frontinus Heraclius (564,595) and his son T. Flavius Vibianus Iunior (595).

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 747)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 747)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 359 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 359 Leica)

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