717. Honours for M. Iunius Cossus
- Description:
- Marble block (w: 0.64 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.35).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.035-0.04.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths; In the street immediately East of the baths, built into the back wall of the second taberna .
- 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>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
Iunio
Cosso
Marci
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Iunius
Silanus
<lb
n="3"
/>
fratri
optimo
Translation:
To Marcus Junius Cossus, son of Marcus; Junius Silanus to a very good brother.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1626 Leica)
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