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566. Honours for Flavius Petasius

Description:: Moulded base of marble (w: 0.75 x h: 1.40 x d: 0.75).
Text:: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.62); the first word is cut above the die, between formal sprays, and the last line below it. The base was formerly inscribed on a second face also, from which the text has since been completely erased.
Letters:: Fourth century A.D. capitals: ll. 1 and 16, 0.05, remainder 0.03-0.04.
Date:: Fourth century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Guidi, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:241 ff., fig. 5; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1930:2. 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)

Petasii
Eximiae integritatis et
inconparabilis prudentiae
ac totius bonitatis uiro
5Fl(auio) Petasio u(iro) p(erfectissimo) ex praesidibus
prouinciae Tripolitanae
ordo splendidissimae
ciuitatis Lepcimagnensis
decreto suo et populi
10sufragiis memor me-
ritorum in se ab eius prae-
sentia conlatorum
statuam in foro nouo Seue-
riano ad perpetuitatis memo-
15riam patrono dignissimo
posuit

PETASII
EXIMIAEINTEGRITATISET
INCONPARABILISPRVDENTIAE
ACTOTIVSBONITATISVIRO
5FLPETASIOVPEXPRAESIDIBVS
PROVINCIAETRIPOLITANAE
ORDOSPLENDIDISSIMAE
CIVITATISLEPCIMAGNENSIS
DECRETOSVOETPOPVLI
10SVFRAGIISMEMORME
RITORVMINSEABEIVSPRAE
SENTIACONLATORVM
STATVAMINFORONOVOSEVE
RIANOADPERPETVITATISMEMO
15RIAMPATRONODIGNISSIMO
POSVIT

<ab>

Petasii

Eximiae

integritatis

inconparabilis

prudentiae

totius

bonitatis

uiro

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

auio

</ex>

</expan>

Petasio

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

iro

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

erfectissimo

</ex>

</expan>

praesidibus

prouinciae

Tripolitanae

ordo

splendidissimae

ciuitatis

Lepcimagnensis

decreto

suo

populi

sufragiis

memor

ritorum

eius

prae

sentia

conlatorum

statuam

foro

nouo

Seue

riano

perpetuitatis

memo

riam

patrono

dignissimo

posuit

</ab>

10, sufragiis: sic

Translation:

(In honour) of Petasius. To a man of outstanding integrity, incomparable prudence and total goodness, Flavius Petasius, excellent man (of equestrian status), former governor of the province of Tripolitania; the city council of the most splendid city of Lepcis Magna, in accordance with its own decree and the votes of the people, having in mind the benefits they enjoyed from his presence, set up a statue to a most worthy patron in the new forum Severianum with a view to their enduring memory.