Description:
Marble
panel
(w:
2.41 x h:
0.71,
both ends missing).
Text: nscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.07; lines 3-5, 0.06.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[---A]uitio Q(uinti) fil(io) Quir(ina) (scil. tribu) Rufo trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) F̣[el(icis)]
[praef(ecto) c]oh(ortis) I Aug(ustae) Thrac(um) proximo tertiae militiae IIu[iro]
[decre]t(o) ordin(is) ob merit(a) eius erga rem publicam ẹx[imia]
[Q(uintus) Aui]tius Lucanus pater titulo et honore [contentus]
5 [s]ua pecunia posuit
Diplomatic
[---.]UITIOQFILQUIR(scil. TRIBU)RUFOTRIBMILLEGVIIGEM.[..]
[.......]OHIAUGTHRACPROXIMOTERTIAEMILITIAEIIU[...]
[.....]TORDINOBMERITEIUSERGAREMPUBLICAM.X[....]
[.....]TIUSLUCANUSPATERTITULOETHONORE[.........]
5[.]UAPECUNIAPOSUIT
1: Or P(iae) [F(elicis)].
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
to [---] Avitius Rufus, son of Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, military tribune in Legion VII Gemina Felix, [prefect]
of cohort I Augusta of Thracians, approaching his third military appointment, duovir; honoured by decree of the city council,
on account of his outstanding merits in public affairs; [Quintus] Auitius Lucanus, his father, was satisfied with the decree
and the honour and set (scil. this) up at his own expense.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 96, whence IRT, 2009, 96, whence EDH 059085; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)
