Fragmentary buildingdedication of porticoes to NeroJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952; with addenda from J. M. Reynolds, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement, Proceedings of the British School at Rome23 (1955), 124-147.
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Description of Monument
Architrave blocks of grey limestone
(each approx. 1.800.500.50) from two apparently identical monumental inscriptions.
Eleven blocks were found in 1930, of which three only are still visible;
the others are now buried under alluvial deposit and the text of these latter is known only from a drawing made in 1932 and in part
from a photograph in the Superintendency archives.
a) Blocks still visible.
b) Blocks no longer visible, but photographed.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Description of Letters
Lapidary capitals:
l. l, 0.165;
l. 2, 0.14;
l. 3, 0.11.
Date
A.D. 61-62
(titulature)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Port area, near the junction of the Port and the Colonnaded Street,
on the North West bank of Wadi Lebdah.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
N. Degrassi, VII:11, n. 2 (1. 3 only);
A. Degrassi, III 1954.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
Blocks 1 and 2.roni claudio diui claudi f germani ser cornelius ser f lem orfitu columnas et super columnia et su
Block 3nep ti caesaris pro quaestor divi claud et super ostia in tribus
Blocks no longer visible but photographed.
Block 4.onep diui aug abrb cos pontif sod s f sabinus
Block 5.poti caesariodalis augustalis hymbal arinis f sabinus tap
Block 6. trib pot VIII p silio celere or pecuniae publicae eas port
Blocks no longer visible, known only from a drawing.
Block 7. l.1 only. ll.2-3 nil.ne
Block 8.ontif max edicauit idemque curau
Block 9. aug germanico procos patronus apius flamen diui aug sufetu
supercolumnia et superostia: on the stone there are in fact stops between super et columnia, and between super and ostia.
Translation
To Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar, great great grandson of deified Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the eighth time, acclaimed victor ? times, consul four times, father of the country; Servius Cornelius Orfitus, son of Servius, of the Roman voting tribe Lemonia, quaestor of the deified Claudius, urban praetor, consul, priest, sodalis Roman priest of the cult of the Augusti, proconsul, patron, dedicated it, Publius Silvius Celer his legate Ithymbal Sabinus Tapapius, son of Arin, flamen local priest of the deified Augustus, sufete , saw to the erection of the columns and the apertures above them and above these openings, in three , and also as curator of public funds those porticoes
Commentary
a. i: Ser. Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus, cost ord. 51, PIR (2) C 1444. Not previously known to have been procos. Africae.
b..iii trib. pot. VIII. 10 Dec. 61 - 9 Dec. 62.
c.iii: Tapapius: Also in Neo-Punic 29 and probably Neo-Punic 33.
For other members of the Tapapius family see 319 n. 8.