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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0097. Honours for an imperial procurator

Description: Part of the left side of a marble panel ( w: 0.48 x h: 0.60), later reversed and re-used for 149.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.055.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

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Pap(iria) (tribu) Uic[---]
proc(uratori) Aug[(ust)]- [---]
duci per [limitem Tri-]
5politanum pr[oc(uratori) regio-]
[ni]s Lepthimi[nensis ---]
[c. 5]ṣius Ṿ [---]

Diplomatic

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PAPUIC[---]
PROCAUG[---]
DUCIPER[..........-]
5POLITANUMPR[.......-]
[..]SLEPTHIMI[......---]
[·····].IUS.[---]

4-5: [limitem Tri]/politanum pr[oc(uratori) regio]/[ni]s Pflaum, 1953
7: Or N[...] IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] Vic[tor?---], of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, procurator of Augustus ( or the Augusti)[---] commander throughout the Tripolitanian frontier, procurator [---] of the region of Leptis Minor [---] ius V[---](a personal name)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 96, whence IRT, 2009, 96; considered Pflaum, 1953 , whence AE1955.226, whence EDH 019563; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 97, 51: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 800 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 217)