651. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:
Fragment from the right-hand side of a base (w: 0.30 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.18) of grey marble. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Basilica Severiana, built into the steps of the South apse.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] ṃẹṛịṭo
[·· ? ··]ṛum sublimi
[·· ? ·· inte]gritatis be-
[·· ? ··]aeq(ue) praedica-
5[bili·· ? ··]orem post
[·· ? ·· d]ignitatum
[·· ? ··] ordinis uo-
[t·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·····O
[·· ? ··]·VMSVBLIMI
[·· ? ·······]GRITATISBE
[·· ? ··]AEQPRAEDICA
5[······· ? ··]OREMPOST
[·· ? ····]IGNITATVM
[·· ? ··]ORDINISVO
[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
merit
</unclear>
o
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
um
sublimi
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
inte
</supplied>
gritatis
be
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
aeq
</abbr>
<ex>
ue
</ex>
</expan>
praedica
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
bili
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
orem
post
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
ignitatum
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ordinis
uo
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[To one·· ? ··] who has deserved [·· ? ··] outstanding [·· ? ··] of integrity [·· ? ··] describable ? [·· ? ··] after [·· ? ··] of merits [·· ? ··?by decree] of the city council [?paid his] vow [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1529 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1529 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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