91. Honours for Anicia Pudentilla

Description:
Right side of a marble moulded base (surviving width w: 0.50 x h: 1.30 x d: 0.50) with rudimentary acroteria above.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face (die, surviving width w: 0.29 x h: 0.75) 
Letters:
Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.065; remainder, 0.055.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha 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) 
Aniciae Pudentil-
[la]e
[Manlia M]acrina
[mater] et her(es)
5[·· ? ··i]ussu
[·· 8··]sentis
[·· 4··]c(larissimi) u(iri)
[ob merita e]rga r(em) p(ublicam)
ANICIAEPVDENTIL
[···]E
[·········]ACRINA
[······]ETHER
5[·· ? ····]VSSV
[·· 8··]SENTIS
[·· 4··]CV
[············]RGARP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Aniciae
Pudentil
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
la
</supplied>
e
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Manlia
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
M
</supplied>
acrina
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
mater
</supplied>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
her
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
ussu
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" />
sentis
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iri
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ob
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
merita
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
rga
<expan>
<abbr>
r
</abbr>
<ex>
em
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ublicam
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

In honour of Anicia Pudentilla; [Manlia] Macrina, [her mother] and heiress [·· ? ··], on the instructions of [·· ? ··]sens [·· ? ··], most excellent man (Roman Senator), [on account of her merits] in city affairs.

Commentary:

Anicia Pudentilla and [Manlia] Macrina also in 22, lines 6, 7.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 825 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 825 Leica)

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