919. Dedication by a centurion
- Description:
- Stele (w: 0.44 x h: 1.85 x d: 0.13) of hard grey limestone of marble-like quality. Uniform with 918.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, 0.34 1.79). Uniform with 918
- Letters:
- Third century lapidary capitals: 0.08.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Bu-Ngem: Baths at Bu-Ngem (map ref. X 5206)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:54 ff., with fig.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1929:7 a. 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"
/>
Centurio
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ionis
</ex>
<del>
</del>
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
<del>
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ustae
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
faciendum
<lb
n="4"
/>
curauit
2, Erased after the damnatio of the legion in 238.
Translation:
Centurion of legion III Augusta (erased) saw to the making (of this).
Commentary:
No doubt to be identified with Q. Avidius Quintianus, dedicator of 918.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIX.36)
-
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 6 to validate this file.)