594. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 1.00 x h: 0.585 x d: 0.47, broken at the right side) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lettering: ll. 1-2 (lapidary capitals), 0.075; l. 3 (rustic capitals), 0.07.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre, built into one of the late piers of the West dressing-room.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinto
</ex>
Cornelio
Va
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
curatori
mun
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arcus
</ex>
Cornelius
Amicus
filio
piissimo
po
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
suit
</supplied>
Translation:
To Quintus Cornelius Va[·· ? ··] curator [?of the municipium]; Marcus Cornelius Amicus set this up to a most dutiful son.
Commentary:
l. 3. M. Cornelius Amicus. Perhaps also in 592, l. 1.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 594 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.19)
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