Honours for Laenatius RomulusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/).
All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/
Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
Marked-up according to the EpiDoc Guidelines version 5 http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/5/
ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin scriptTripolitaniaLibyaLeptis Magna2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C2009-05-19RVAdded Figures2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument
Moulded marblebase
(0.581.500.58).
Description of Text
Reinscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, 0.340.88), from which a previous inscription has been erased; the first word is cut above the die, and the last line below it.
Description of Letters
Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.08; remainder, 0.05.
Date
317 A.D. (prosopography).
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, central exedra.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Aurigemma, XV:113 ff., fig. 2; 1948:38.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
RomuliiObtantammoderationemiudiciorumprouisionesquesaluberrimasadquefelicitatemaduentuseiusLaenatioRomulouiroperfectissimopraesidiprouinciaeTripolitanaesufragioquietissimipopulietdecretosplendidissimiordinissumptibussuisposuerunt
Apparatus
sufragiosic
Translation
In honour of Romulius. On account of the great moderation of his judgements and advantageous foresight and good fortune of his arrival among us, they the Lepcitanians set this up to Laenatius Romulus, excellent man of equestrian status, governor of the province of Tripolitania, in accordance with a vote of the most peaceful people and a decree of the most splendid city council, at their own expense.
Commentary
l.10: Praeses c. 317, see Aurigemma, loc. cit.; also in 101, ll. 1-8; 467, l. 7; 468, l. 10.