Description of Monument
Fragmentary panel (
0.29
0.27
0.10) of pink limestone. Not seen.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the surviving face.
Description of Letters
Capitals: 0.045.
Locations
Ghadames:
Found at an unidentified site in, or about, 1948
Unknown
Subsequently transported to Tunis
Bibliography
G-Ch. Picard and Ch. Saumagne, Karthago, II:105ff.
Text constituted from
Here reproduced from a copy furnished by M. G.-Ch. Picard
Text
praetendentes
Cydamis uotumsoluerunt
libentes sub Valerio
Senecione legato
Augusti
pro
praetore
clarissimo
uiro
Apparatus
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
No photographs.