588. Honours for L. Aemilius Quintus

Description:
The right-hand face of 561. Moulded base of marble (w: 0.65 x h: 1.25 x d: 0.65).  
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.30 x h: 0.52) from the centre of which a circular object has been erased. The first line is cut above the die; there are formal sprays at the end of lines 4 and 10.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.05. 
Date:
383-388 A.D. (prosopography).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:36; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:150. 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) 
Quintii fl(aminis) p(er)p(etui) sac(erdotalis)
Ob meritum labo-
ris et legationis
perfectae
5L(ucio) Aemilio Quinto fl(amini) p(er)p(etuo)
sacerdotali
ordo splendidis-
simus ciuitatis
Lepcimagnensium
10dedit
QVINTIIFLPPSAC
OBMERITVMLABO
RISETLEGATIONIS
PERFECTAE
5LAEMILIOQVINTOFLPP
SACERDOTALI
ORDOSPLENDIDIS
SIMVSCIVITATIS
LEPCIMAGNENSIVM
10DEDIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Quintii
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
aminis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
etui
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
sac
</abbr>
<ex>
erdotalis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Ob
meritum
labo
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ris
et
legationis
<lb n="4" />
perfectae
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Aemilio
Quinto
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
amini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
etuo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
sacerdotali
<lb n="7" />
ordo
splendidis
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
simus
ciuitatis
<lb n="9" />
Lepcimagnensium
<lb n="10" />
dedit
</ab>

Translation:

In honour of Quintius, perpetual flamen (priest), priest. On account of the merit of his public service and of his successfully completed embassy, to Lucius Aemilius Quintus, perpetual flamen (priest), priest; the most splendid council of the city of the Lepcimagnensians gave (this).

Commentary:

ll.1, 5: Quintii, L. Aemilius Quintus: also in CIL VIII, 27, dated between 383 and 388, and in 111.

ll.2-4: See also CIL VIII, 27, ll. 6-8, on meritum magnific(a)e legationis quam pro uoto totius prouinciae executus est; and 111, ll. 2-7.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 25)

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