611. Fragmentary honours

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 1.30 x h: 1.60 x d: 1.30) broken above. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face (die, w: 1.02 x h: 0.73); the text has subsequently been partially erased. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, West side. 
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) 
〚Praecipuae nobilitatis ac uirtut(is) 〛
〚 [·· c. 13··] perpensae iustitiae 〛
〚 [·· 7-8··] aeque sinceritatis adque 〛
〚i[n]co[m]parabilis prudentiae uiro〛
5 〚[---?] 〛
〚 patrono ob plurima ịṇ se pṛo-
u[i]sio[nes ·· ? ··?] 〛
〚 [·· ? ··]o Ḷẹp̣c̣ịṃạg̣ṇẹṇṣẹṣ 〛
〚p̣ụblic̣ẹ〛
〚PRAECIPVAENOBILITATISACVIRTVT〛
〚[·· c. 13··]PERPENSAEIVSTITIAE〛
〚[·· 7-8··]AEQVESINCERITATISADQVE〛
〚I[··]CO[··]PARABILISPRVDENTIAEVIRO〛
5〚[---?]〛
〚PATRONOOBPLVRIMA··SEP·O
V[··]SIO[······ ? ··?]〛
〚[·· ? ··]O··············〛
〚··BLI··〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
Praecipuae
nobilitatis
ac
<expan>
<abbr>
uirtut
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" precision="circa" />
perpensae
iustitiae
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" extentmax="8" />
aeque
sinceritatis
adque
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<del>
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
n
</supplied>
co
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
parabilis
prudentiae
uiro
</del>
<lb n="5" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="line1" />
</del>
<lb n="6" />
<del>
patrono
ob
plurima
<unclear reason="" >
in
</unclear>
se
p
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
o
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
u
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
sio
<supplied reason="lost" >
nes
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
</del>
<lb n="8" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
<unclear reason="" >
Lepcimagnenses
</unclear>
</del>
<lb n="9" />
<del>
<unclear reason="" >
pu
</unclear>
bli
<unclear reason="" >
ce
</unclear>
</del>
</ab>

2, Perhaps CA[···]IVMSI[·] et perpensae iustitiae.

Translation:

(All erased although most of the text is legible.) To a man of especial nobility and virtue, [·· ? ··], perpetual justice, [·· ? ··] and [·· ? ··] sincerity, moreover one of incomparable prudence [·· ? ··], their patron, the Lepcimagnensians (set this up) publicly, on account of his very extensive care for them [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 574)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 574)

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