529. Honours for Flavius Macedonius Patricius

Description:
Moulded base of marble (w: 0.60 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.74).  
Text:
Re-inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.53 x h: 0.79) and above it, on the upper edge, within a tabella ansata (l.1), both over the erased remains of an earlier text, 694. q.v.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.07, remainder, 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East side.  
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) 
Patricii u(iri) c(larissimi)
uirtuti praestanti
aequitati mirauili
temperantia moderato (sic)
5defensori iustitiae
innocentium uindici
Fl(auio) Macedonio Patricio
u(iro) c(larissimo) comiti et duci p(rouinciae) T(ripolitanae)
ordo splendidus et po-
10pulus uniuersus Lep(cis)
Mag(nae) ciuitatis digno
patrono decreuit ad (sic)
constituit
PATRICIIVC
VIRTVTIPRAESTANTI
AEQVITATIMIRAVILI
TEMPERANTIAMODERATO(sic)
5DEFENSORIIVSTITIAE
INNOCENTIVMVINDICI
FLMACEDONIOPATRICIO
VCCOMITIETDVCIPT
ORDOSPLENDIDVSETPO
10PVLVSVNIVERSVSLEP
MAGCIVITATISDIGNO
PATRONODECREVITAD(sic)
CONSTITVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Patricii
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
uirtuti
praestanti
<lb n="3" />
aequitati
mirauili
<lb n="4" />
temperantia
moderato
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="5" />
defensori
iustitiae
<lb n="6" />
innocentium
uindici
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
Macedonio
Patricio
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimo
</ex>
</expan>
comiti
et
duci
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
rouinciae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ripolitanae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
ordo
splendidus
et
po
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
pulus
uniuersus
<expan>
<abbr>
Lep
</abbr>
<ex>
cis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Mag
</abbr>
<ex>
nae
</ex>
</expan>
ciuitatis
digno
<lb n="12" />
patrono
decreuit
ad
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="13" />
constituit
</ab>

Translation:

(In honour) of Patricius, splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status). To a man outstanding in virtue, admirable for equity, restrained in his discretion, defender of justice, protector of the innocent, Flavius Macedonius Patricius, splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status), count and governor of the province of Tripolitania; the splendid city council and the whole people of the city of Lepcis Magna decreed (this) and set it up to a worthy patron.

Commentary:

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Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 19bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 19bis)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741bis)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 85bis)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 85bis)

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