907. Fragmentary votive text

Description:
Fragmentary panel (w: 0.29 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.10) of pink limestone. Not seen.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.045.  
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Ghadames: Found at an unidentified site in, or about, 1948 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Subsequently transported to Tunis 
Bibliography:
G-Ch. Picard and Ch. Saumagne, Karthago, II:105ff. 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:
Here reproduced from a copy furnished by M. G.-Ch. Picard 
[---]
1 [prae]tendent[es]
[Cy]damis uotu[msol(uerunt)]
[li]b(entes) sub Val[erio Sene]cione [leg(ato) Aug(usti)]
5 [pr(o)] pr(aetore) c(larissimo) [u(iro) ·· ? ··]
[---]
1[·····]TENDENT[···]
[···]DAMISVOTV[······]
[···]BSVBVAL[··········]CIONE[····]
5[···]PRC[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
prae
</supplied>
tendent
<supplied reason="lost" >
es
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cy
</supplied>
damis
uotu
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
sol
</abbr>
<ex>
uerunt
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
li
</supplied>
<abbr>
b
</abbr>
<ex>
entes
</ex>
</expan>
sub
Val
<supplied reason="lost" >
erio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sene
</supplied>
cione
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ato
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimo
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

5, Rather than c[o(n)s(ule)...] (so Picard and Saumagne); see 908.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] stationed ?in the forecamp at Cydamae; they paid their vow willingly under Valerius Senecio, legate of Augustus with propraetorian powers, splendid man( of senatorial status) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See G-Ch. Picard, Castellum Dimmidi (Alger-Paris. 1948) 181, no. 4 and 189, no. 14.

Ghadàmes; previously recorded as Cidamus or Cydamus (Pliny, HN V. 35, 36) and Κιδαμή (Procopius, De Aedif. VI. iii. 9); see PW XI 378. The correct form would seem rather to be Cidamae or Cydamae.

M. Valerius Senecio, legatus in Numidia under Caracalla; PIR (1) V 130.

Photographs:
none.

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