Boundary inscriptionJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Stele (0.891.220.21) of hard brown sand-stone.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
First century. capitals ranging from lapidary to irregular: l. 1, 0.09;
ll. 2-9, 0.07-0.075;
ll. 10-13, 0.06;
l. 14, 0.045.
Date
A.D. 87
(titulature)
Locations
Sirtica: Found 3 km. East of Sirte (map ref. approx. Y 6873)
Unknown
Tripoli Castle.
Bibliography
Romanelli, , I:111ff., fig. 11;
, 1940:70.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ExauctoritateImperatorisdiuiVespasianifiliDomitianiAugustiGermanicipontificismaximitribuniciapotestateVIimperatorisXIIIIconsulisXIIIcensorisperpetuipatrispatriaeiussuSuelliFlaccilegatiAugustipro praetoreterminuspositiinternationemMuduciuuiorumetZamuciorumexconuentioneutrarumquenationum
Apparatus
Erased very half-heartedly after Domitian's damnatio in 96.
positi sic
Translation
On the authority of the son of deified Vespasian, emperor Domitian name erased Augustu,s Germanicus, chief priest, holding tribinician power for the sixth time, acclaimed victor fourteen times, consul for the thirteenth time, perpetual censor, father of the country, by the command of Suellius Flaccus, legate of Augustus with praetorian powers, the boundary stones were set up between the tribe of the Muduciuui and that of the Zamucii, in accordance with the agreement of both tribes.
Commentary
l. 5. trib. pot. VI. c. 14 Sept. 86 - 13 Sept. 87.