536. Honours for L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus

Description:
Left-hand side of a marble panel (surviving width, w: 0.61 x h: 0.58). 
Text:
Inscribed within a narrow border.  
Letters:
Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: ll.1-2, 0.11; ll.3-4, 0.075; l.5, 0.065. 
Date:
149-150 A.D. (prosopography).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
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) 
L(ucio) Minicio [Natali]
Quadron[io]
Vero proco[(n)s(uli)]
Afric(ae) patr[ono]
5Lepcitani pu[bl(ice)]
LMINICIO[·······]
QVADRON[···]
VEROPROCO[··]
AFRICPATR[····]
5LEPCITANIPV[·······]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Minicio
<supplied reason="lost" >
Natali
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Quadron
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
Vero
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Afric
</abbr>
<ex>
ae
</ex>
</expan>
patr
<supplied reason="lost" >
ono
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
Lepcitani
<expan>
<abbr>
pu
<supplied reason="lost" >
bl
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ice
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Lucius Minicius [Natalis] Quadronius Verus, proconsul of Africa, their patron, the Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

li. 1-3. Verus was cos. suff. an. inc. c. 133, procos. Africae c. 149-150 = PW XV 1836, no. 19.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.12)

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