Description:
Damaged rectangular base (surviving width w: 0.47 x h: 0.89 x d: 0.59) of coarse grey limestone, uniform with 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, die not precisely measurable. 
Letters:
Local second to third century A.D. capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Basilica, standing against the E wall of the S aisle of the later church. 
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) F]l(auio) Q(uinti) fil(io) Pap(iria tribu)
Pudenti
flam(ini) perp(etuo)
Curia Faus[t]-
5[i]na ob meri
ta
[····]LQFILPAP
PVDENTI
FLAMPERP
CVRIAFAVS[··]
5[··]NAOBMERI
TA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
F
</supplied>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
io
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Pudenti
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
perp
</abbr>
<ex>
etuo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Curia
Faus
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
na
ob
meri
<lb n="6" />
ta
</ab>

Translation:

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

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Caius Flauius Pudens. Also in 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.30)

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