<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Flavius Macedonius PatriciusJ. 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.

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Description of Monument

Moulded base of marble (0.601.500.74).

Description of Text

Re-inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, 0.530.79) 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.

Description of Letters

Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.07, remainder, 0.03-0.04.

Date

Fourth century A.D. (lettering).

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East side.

Unknown

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Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Patricii uiri clarissimi uirtuti praestanti aequitati mirauili temperantia moderato sic defensori iustitiae innocentium uindici Flauio Macedonio Patricio uiro clarissimo comiti et duci prouinciae Tripolitanae ordo splendidus et populus uniuersus Lepcis Magnae ciuitatis digno patrono decreuit ad sic constituit
Translation

In honour of Patricius, splendid man 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 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

No comment.

Photographs

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