119. Honours for C. Flavius Pudens

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.85 x d: 0.57) of coarse grey limestone, broken down the right-hand edge; uniform with 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.70, height not complete). 
Letters:
Local second to third centuries A.D. capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.035-0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Forum area, in the forum standing against the N portico. 
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) 
C(aio) [Flavio Q(uinti)] fil(io) Pa[p(iria tribu)]
[P]udenti
[flam(ini)] per[p(etuo)]
Cu[r]ia Caele[st(is)]
5o[b] ṃerita
C[·········]FILPA[·············]
[··]VDENTI
[·····]PER[··]
CV[··]IACAELE[······]
5O[··]·ERITA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Flavio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
io
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Pa
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
P
</supplied>
udenti
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
per
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
etuo
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
Cu
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
ia
<expan>
<abbr>
Caele
<supplied reason="lost" >
st
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
is
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
o
<supplied reason="lost" >
b
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
erita
</ab>

5, Or Caelest(ia).

Translation:

To Caius [Flavius] Pudens, son of [Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria], perpetual [ flamen] (priest), the Curia Caelestis, on account of his merits.

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Caius Flauius Pudens. Also in 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 846 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 846 Leica)

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