Building inscription for the proscaenium of the TheatreJ. 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
a) Marblearchitrave blocks from the lowest order of each of the six projecting elements of the scaenae frons of the Theatre
(surviving length, together 29.42).
Found fallen and re-used as steps: now restored to their original position.
b) Fragments, possibly from the corresponding architrave block over the central door.
remThere may be a lacuna here, at the point where the central bay interrupts; see b).
CC and CCC: this is correct.
Translation
a The theatre-stage was decorated with columns and marbles by Marcius Vitalis who spent 200,000 sesterces, and Junius Galba who spent 300,000 sesterces of public money on the work; it was dedicated when Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus was proconsul, and Caius Vibius Gallio Claudius Severus, was his legate. b Not usefully translatable.