WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0010a. Dedication to Jupiter by Aemilius Aristides

Description: A moulded stele of marble, identical to IRT 10b (w: 0.37 x h: 1.53 x d: 0.30).
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.30 x h: 1.00). The first line is cut above the die.
Letters: Mannered capitals with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.08; remainder, 0.07.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

I(oui) O(ptimo) M(aximo)
Q(uintus) Aemilius
Aristides
iurid(icus) per
5Alexandr(iam)

Diplomatic

IOM
QAEMILIUS
ARISTIDES
IURIDPER
5ALEXANDR

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Jupiter best and greatest; Quintus Aemilius Aristides, (scil. Roman) judge in the territory of Alexandria (scil. gave and dedicated this)

Commentary

See also the companion piece, 10b

Q. Aemilius Aristides: see PIR², A 334, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/968

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1925a, 289 ; with 10b, IRT, 1952 10.a, whence IRT, 2009 10a, whence EDH 059010; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 815)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 759 bis Leica)