277. Dedication for Hostilia Honesta

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.45 x h: 0.87) of dark limestone, a pair with 276. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.26 x h: 0.63);  
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. irregular capitals: 0.06-0.055. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, built into the wall of the passage leading from the West dressing- room to the stage.  
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) 
Fortunae
Crescenti et
Horae Bonae
Hostiliae
5 Q(uinti) f(iliae) Honestae
Q(uintus) Iulius Ius-
tus auos
ex d(ecreto) o(rdinis)
FORTVNAE
CRESCENTIET
HORAEBONAE
HOSTILIAE
5QFHONESTAE
QIVLIVSIVS
TVSAVOS
EXDO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Fortunae
<lb n="2" />
Crescenti
et
<lb n="3" />
Horae
Bonae
<lb n="4" />
Hostiliae
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
iliae
</ex>
</expan>
Honestae
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Iulius
Ius
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
tus
auos
<lb n="8" />
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ecreto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Good Fortune growing up and the Good hour of Hostilia Honesta, daughter of Quintus; Quintus Julius Justus, her grandfather, (set this up) in accordance with a decree of the city-council.

Commentary:

ll. 6-7. Q. Iulius Iustus. Also in 270, ll. 6- 7; 276, l. 4.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1621 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1621 Leica)

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