96. Honours for Avitius Rufus
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 2.41 x h: 0.71, both ends missing).
- Text:
- nscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Second century lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.07; lines 3-5, 0.06.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
[praef(ecto) c]oh(ortis) I Aug(ustae) Thrac(um) proximo tertiae militiae IIu[iro]
[decre(- - -)]t(o) ordin(is) ob merit(a) eius erga rem publicam ẹx[imia]
[Q(uintus) Aui]tius Lucanus pater titulo et honore [contentus]
5 [s]ua pecunia posuit
1, Or P(iae) F(elicis).
Translation:
to [·· ? ··] Avitius Rufus, son of Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, military tribune in Legion VII Gemina Felix, [prefect] of cohort I Augusta of Thracians, approaching his third military appointment, duovir; honoured by decree of the city council, on account of his outstanding merits in public affairs; [Quintus] Auitius Lucanus, his father, was satisfied with the decree and the honour and set (this) up at his own expense.
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