610. Fragmentary honours
- Description:
- Moulded marble base ( w: 0.82 x h: 1.10 x d: 0.82; height incomplete), the upper part of which is fragmentary. Fragments found since 1951: a) from the left-hand corner, on the second face of the new fragements of 522; b) from the righthand edge (w: 0.165 x h: 0.325 x d: 0.135).
- Text:
- Inscribed (die, w: 0.57 x h: 0.67 approx.) on the face opposite to the original inscription, which was set within a moulded panel and was subsequently erased to make way for 477. The first line is cut above the die, on the upper border; the fragment containing the right-hand end of ll. 6-8 is known only from a photograph.
- Letters:
- Late third to fourth centuries A.D. capitals: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering, titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico. Three additional fragments were found after 1951.
- 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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Ae[·· c. 14··] u(iro) p(erfectissimo)
prạẹ[sidi prouinc(iae) Tr(- - -)]ip(olitanae)
omnium uirtut[um ui]ro
5 innocentis inte[g]rita-
tis uigoratae laenitatis
sublimis moderat[i]onis
iustitiae laudab[i]lis to-
tius aequitatis L[e]pci-
10magnenses ex decreto
spl(endidissimi) ordinis patrono benign(o)
Translation:
[·· ? ··] to Ae[·· c. 14 ··] excellent man (of equestrian status), governor of the province of Tripolitania, a man of all the virtues, of integrity that does no harm, of real gentleness. of outstanding moderation, of praiseworthy justice, of absolute equity; the Lepcimagnensians, in accordance with a decree of the most splendid city council (set this up) to a kindly patron.
Commentary:
The text is closely related to that of 522, cut on the left-hand face of the same base; and from the markedly superior quality of the lettering, it would naturally seem to be the earlier of the two. But the script is that of the early fourth rather than of the late third century.
The new fragments show that the text relates to a praeses provinciae Tripolitanae (unidentified) and is therefore of the fourth century.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.25)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 587)
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