98. Honours for a Flavian officer

Description:
Four blocks (each w: 0.85-95 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.40) of sand-stone, once stuccoed.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.14.  
Date:
Flavian (reign) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church III (Reg. III, ins. 4), found re-used in the N wall of the N baptistry and now lying loose nearby.  
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) 
a, b, c
[·· ? ··]e [Au(- - -)]g(usti) [V]ẹsp̣ạsiaṇị ex
quinq[ue decuriis ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] donis mịḷitaribus do[nat ·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ·· Af]ricae so[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· m]emor[i]a[·· ? ··]
a, b, c
[·· ? ··]E[···]G[··]·S··SIA··EX
QVINQ[·············· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DONISM··ITARIBVSDO[······ ? ··]
d
[·· ? ·····]RICAESO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]EMOR[··]A[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a, b, c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
e
<expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
Au
</abbr>
</supplied>
<abbr>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
V
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
s
<unclear reason="" >
pa
</unclear>
sia
<unclear reason="" >
ni
</unclear>
ex
<lb n="2" />
quinq
<supplied reason="lost" >
ue
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
decuriis
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
donis
m
<unclear reason="" >
il
</unclear>
itaribus
do
<supplied reason="lost" >
nat
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Af
</supplied>
ricae
so
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
emor
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
a
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a, b and c: [·· ? ··] of Vespasian Augustus, a member of the five [decuries](of jurymen at Rome)[·· ? ··], awarded military honours [·· ? ··].

d. [·· ? ··] of Africa [·· ? ·· ·· ? ··]? in memory[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 817 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 817 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 815 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 815 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 817 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 817 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.4)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.4)

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