574. Honours for Laenatius Romulus

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.58 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.58). 
Text:
Reinscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.88), from which a previous inscription has been erased; the first word is cut above the die, and the last line below it.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.08; remainder, 0.05. 
Date:
317 A.D. (prosopography).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, central exedra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia: Rendiconti XV:113 ff., fig. 2; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:38. 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) 
Romulii
Ob tantam
moderatio-
nem iudici-
5orum proui-
sionesque sa-
luberrimas
adque felici-
tatem aduen-
10tus eius Laena-
tio Romulo u(iro) p(erfectissimo)
p(raesidi) p(rouinciae) Tripol(itanae) su
fragio quietis-
simi populi et
15dec[r]eto s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) sum-
ptib(us) suis pos(uerunt)
ROMVLII
OBTANTAM
MODERATIO
NEMIVDICI
5ORVMPROVI
SIONESQVESA
LVBERRIMAS
ADQVEFELICI
TATEMADVEN
10TVSEIVSLAENA
TIOROMVLOVP
PPTRIPOLSV
FRAGIOQVIETIS
SIMIPOPVLIET
15DEC[··]ETOSOSVM
PTIBSVISPOS
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Romulii
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Ob
tantam
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moderatio
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nem
iudici
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orum
proui
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sionesque
sa
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luberrimas
<lb n="8" />
adque
felici
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
tatem
aduen
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
tus
eius
Laena
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
tio
Romulo
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<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
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p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimo
</ex>
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<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
raesidi
</ex>
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<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
rouinciae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Tripol
</abbr>
<ex>
itanae
</ex>
</expan>
su
<lb n="13" />
fragio
quietis
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
simi
populi
et
<lb n="15" />
dec
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
eto
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
sum
<lb n="16" type="worddiv" />
ptib
</abbr>
<ex>
us
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suis
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pos
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<ex>
uerunt
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</ab>

13, sufragio: sic

Translation:

(In honour) of Romulius. On account of the great moderation of his judgements and advantageous foresight and good fortune of his arrival (among us), they (the Lepcitanians) set (this) up to Laenatius Romulus, excellent man (of equestrian status), governor of the province of Tripolitania, in accordance with a vote of the most peaceful people and a decree of the most splendid city council, at their own expense.

Commentary:

l.10: Praeses c. 317, see Aurigemma, loc. cit.; also in 101, ll. 1-8; 467, l. 7; 468, l. 10.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 84)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 84)

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