591. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:
The reverse face of 426. Marble block (w: 0.51 x h: 0.34 x d: 1.42). 
Text:
Inscribed on the two end faces. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.09. 
Date:
Third to fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, at the angle of the East and South Porticoes.  
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) 
[---]
2Clementis Vffil Amilitis
ciui patrono ordo spl(endidissimus) Lepc(imagnensium)
[---]
2CLEMENTISVFFILAMILITIS
CIVIPATRONOORDOSPLLEPC
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
Clementis
Vffil
Amilitis
<lb n="3" />
ciui
patrono
ordo
<expan>
<abbr>
spl
</abbr>
<ex>
endidissimus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
imagnensium
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

2, Vffil: : perhaps Clementis u(iri) e(gregii) fil(io) Amilitis.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?Amilitis, son of Clement, eminent man (of equestrian status) citizen and patron, the most splendid city council of the Lepcimagnensians (set this up)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 228)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 228)

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