920. Dedication to Jupiter Hammon

Description:
Block (w: 0.46 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.63) of pitted grey limestone, damaged below.. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late second to third century capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
Late second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Bu-Ngem: Fort at Bu-Ngem, about 1 km North of the fort (map ref. X 5206) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
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) 
Ioui Hammon(i)
red(uci) Aug(usti) sacr(um)
Tullius Ro-
mulus c(enturio) ex ma-
5[i]oriario prae-
[posit]us ue-
[xillationi ·· ? ··]
IOVIHAMMON
REDAVGSACR
TVLLIVSRO
MVLVSCEXMA
5[··]ORIARIOPRAE
[······]VSVE
[············· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ioui
<expan>
<abbr>
Hammon
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
red
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
sacr
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
Tullius
Ro
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
mulus
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
enturio
</ex>
</expan>
ex
ma
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
oriario
prae
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
posit
</supplied>
us
ue
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
xillationi
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to Jupiter Hammon who brings the emperor home; Tullius Romulus, centurion, formerly majoriarius, in charge of the detachment.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.18)

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