Honours for a proconsulJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Five blocks of grey limestone from a monumental inscription.
Four are from an upper course (together, originally 2.970.500.50)
and one from a lower course (1.100.460.42).
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
Lapidary capitals: ll.1-4, 0.07; ll.5-9, 0.06.
Date
After A.D. 139 (titulature. See notes.)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Hadrianic Baths, found cut for re-use as voussoirs and lying scattered in the Caldarium.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
, 91 ff.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
consuliproconsuliprouinciaeAfricaeXVuirosacrisfaciundiscuratoriaediumsacrarumetoperumpublicorumlegatopropraetoreImperatorisCaesarisTraianiHadrianiAugustiprouinciaeCappadociaelegatopropraetoreImperatorisCaesarisTraianiHadrianiAugustiprouinciaeMoesiae InferiorislegatopropraetoreImperatorisCaesarisdiuiTraianiAugustiprouinciaeCiliciaecuratori uiaeLatinaelegatolegionisVI FerrataedonismilitaribusdonatoabImperatoreTraianoAugustoobbellumParthicumpraetoriaediliplebeioquaestoriprouinciaeHispaniaeBaeticaeVlterioristribunolaticlauiolegionisIMineruiaedonismilitaribusdonatoabImperatoreAugustoobbellumMarcomannicumtriumuirocapitaliLepcitani
Translation
To consul, proconsul of the province of Africa, member of the committee of fifteen for sacred affairs, curator of sacred buildings and public works, legate with propraetorian powers so far all erased of emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus in the province of Cappadocia, propraetorian legate erased from Cappadocia of emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus in the province of Moesia inferior erased from in, propraetorian legate of Emperor Caesar Trajan Augustus in the province of Cilicia, curator of the Latin Road, legate of legiona VI Ferrata, awarded military decorations by emperor Trajan Augustus for the Parthian war, praetor, plebeian aedile, quaestor of the province of Hispania Baetica Ulterior, senatorial tribune of legion I Minervia, awarded military honours by emperor Augustus for the Marcomannic war, member of the committee of three concerned with capital crimes the Lepcitanians
Commentary
l. 1. The consul proconsul prouinciae Africae is certainly BruttiusPraesensL.FulviusRusticus, cos. an. inc., cos. II 139, PIR (2) B 164 and Picard < Revue Africaine> XCIV (1950) 25 ff. The partial erasure of his career perhaps follows the damnatio of his granddaughter, Crispina Augusta.
l. 9. ab Imperator Augustus ob bellum Marcomannicum. By Domitian in 89.