600. Honours for C. Marcius Dento

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.71 x h: 0.98 x d: 0.74) of compact grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face.  
Letters:
Irregular capitals ; l. 1, 0.08; l. 2, 0.06; l. 3, 0.075; remainder, 0.055. 
Date:
Probably first century A.D. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the South West portico. 
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) 
C(aius) Marcius Dento
flam(en) Aug(usti)
suf(es) flam(en) perpet(uus)
statuam publice
5sibi ob merita decr[e]-
tam s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit)
CMARCIVSDENTO
FLAMAVG
SVFFLAMPERPET
STATVAMPVBLICE
5SIBIOBMERITADECR[··]
TAMSPF
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Marcius
Dento
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
en
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
suf
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
en
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
perpet
</abbr>
<ex>
uus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
statuam
publice
<lb n="5" />
sibi
ob
merita
decr
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
tam
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ecit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Caius Marcius Dento, flamen (priest) of Augustus, sufete, perpetual flamen (priest) set up at his own expense the statue decreed to him publicly on account of his merits.

Commentary:

l.3, sufes: i.e. before the grant of colonial status by Trajan, see 412. The mannerisms of the lettering would otherwise suggest a rather later date.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 327)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 327)

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