583. Fragmentary ?honours

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.30 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.28) of compact grey limestone, badly damaged.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w: 0.20 x h: 0.21, left-hand and lower edges only preserved). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: av. 0.03. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
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) 
[---]
2D(ecim-) Ṣ[·· ? ··]
c(enturio-) leg(ionis) II Traian[ae ·· c. 4··]
quam ab Imp(eratore) Caes(are) Ṭ[raiano]
5Hadriano Au[g](usto) [·· ? ··]
oṛdinis [·· ? ··]
patri Gem[·· ? ··]
[---]
2D·[·· ? ··]
CLEGIITRAIAN[····· c. 4··]
QVAMABIMPCAES·[·······]
5HADRIANOAV[··][·· ? ··]
O·DINIS[·· ? ··]
PATRIGEM[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
ecim-
</ex>
</expan>
<unclear reason="damage" >
S
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
enturio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ionis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
Traian
<supplied reason="lost" >
ae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="4" />
quam
ab
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
are
</ex>
</expan>
<unclear reason="damage" >
T
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
raiano
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
Hadriano
<expan>
<abbr>
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
g
</supplied>
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
o
<unclear reason="damage" >
r
</unclear>
dinis
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="7" />
patri
Gem
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··to] Decimus S[·· ? ··] centurion of Legion two Traiana [·· ? ··] which [·· ? ··] by emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus [·· ? ··] of the city council [·· ? ··] to ?his father Gem[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.17)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.17)

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