656. ?Honours for Narcissus
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.505 x h: 0.50).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.03. Not earlier than second century A.D. See contra, previous publications; but material and lettering are decisive.
- Date:
- Not earlier than second century A.D. (lettering, marble)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Formerly in Homs Museum
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 II:70; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:88, fig. 6; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1931:3; Caputo, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VI:102ff., fig. 9. 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Narcisso
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erto
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
architecto
<lb
n="3"
/>
Aquilia
Hedone
<lb
n="4"
/>
marito
optimo
<lb
n="5"
/>
fecit
</ab>
Translation:
To Narcissus, freedman of Augustus, architect; Aquila Hedone had this made for a very good husband.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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