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95. Honours for Gaius Anicius Fronto

Description:: Panel of grey marble (w: 0.67 x h: 0.54).
Text:: Inscribed within a narrow border (die, w: 0.55 x h: 0.54).
Letters:: Late second to third centuries lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.055; remainder, 0.045.
Date:: Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Sabratha: Capitolium, some fragments were found in the vaults (see note on 1), and the lower left-hand part was found re-used in the late fourth century paving at the W end of the N Forum Portico (see also 23, 27, 41, 43)
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Some fragments in vault of Capitolium; lower left-hand part in Sabratha Museum.
Bibliography:: Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:54; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) l950:155. 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)

C(aio) An[i]c̣[io Qu]ir(ina) (tribu)
Fronto[ni]
equo publ(ico) o[rnato]
Anici Ḅassi[ani fil]io
5q(uaestori) aedil(i) IIuir(o) ỊỊụir(o) q(uin)q(uennali)
[d]esig(nato) amatori patriae
[c]iues ob merita
[cur]ante Q(uinto) Flauio Hiceta

CAN[··]·[······]IR
FRONTO[···]
EQVOPVBLO[······]
ANICI·ASSI[········]IO
5QAEDILIIVIR···IRQQ
[··]ESIGAMATORIPATRIAE
[··]IVESOBMERITA
[····]ANTEQFLAVIOHICETA

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aio

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ina

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tribu

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</expan>

Fronto

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equo

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publ

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ico

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</expan>

rnato

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Anici

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assi

ani

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fil

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uaestori

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aedil

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</ex>

</expan>

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IIuir

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</ex>

</expan>

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IIu

</unclear>

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</ex>

</expan>

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uin

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uennali

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esig

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nato

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amatori

patriae

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iues

merita

cur

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ante

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uinto

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Flauio

Hiceta

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Translation:

To Caius Anicius Fronto, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, honoured with a public horse, son of Anicius Bassianus, quaestor, aedile, duovir, designated quinquennial duovir, lover of his country; the citizens (set this up) on account of his merits, Quintus Flavius Hicetas was in charge (of the erection).