<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for C. Valerius VibianusJ. 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 marble base (0.651.200.65).

Description of Text

Reinscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, 0.360.71), from which a previous inscription has been erased; the first word is cut above the die, between formal sprays; a similar spray follows the main text.

Description of Letters

Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.02-0.04.

Date

Fourth century A.D. (lettering).

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.

Unknown

Findspot

Bibliography

Bartoccini II:48; 1929:4.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Obsequii Caio Valerio Vibiano uiro perfectissimo praesidi prouinciae Tripolitanae singularis aequitatis et beniboli uicoris u omnium uirtutum uiro ob tunc incipientem deinceps iugem erga se eius dignationem ordo splendidissimus Lepcimagnensium et populus patrono ex decreto splendidissimi ordinis posuerent
Apparatus

benibolisic

uA badly cut character; probably V for v(iro), cut and then erased.

Translation

In honour of Obsequius. To Caius Valerius Vibianus, excellent man of equestrian status, governor of the province of Tripolitania, a man of singular equity and benevolent vigour, of every virtue, on account of his regard for them, at first beginning and subsequently continuous; the most splendid city council of the Lepcimagnensians and the people set this up to their patron, in accordance with a decree of the most spelndid city council.

Commentary

l. 2. C. Valerius Vibianus. Also in CIL VIII, 22763 = ILS 9352, ll. 2, 3, 5.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 755)