Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
0.75 x h:
1.40 x d:
0.70).
Text: Inscribed on one face, from which a previous inscription has been erased. The first line is cut above the die
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: line 1, 0.07; 0.04-0.05. Height not complete.
Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
Curia, in situ in front of the entrance.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
L(uci) Aemili Quinti fl(aminis) p̣(er)p̣(etui)
quod laborem continu<u>m
pro prouinciae suae
necessitate sustinuit
5et quod miserias com-
munes sacris aurib(us)
intimabit et remedium
meruit ordo et popul(us)
splendidae col(oniae) Sabrat(hensis)
10secundum decreta totius
prouinc(iae) dedic(auerunt) cur(ante)
Fl(auio) Uenantio
Diplomatic
LAEMILIQUINTIFL..
QUODLABOREMCONTINUM
PROPROUINCIAESUAE
NECESSITATESUSTINUIT
5ETQUODMISERIASCOM
MUNESSACRISAURIB
INTIMABITETREMEDIUM
MERUITORDOETPOPUL
SPLENDIDAECOLSABRAT
10SECUNDUMDECRETATOTIUS
PROUINCDEDICCUR
FLUENANTIO
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(scil. In honour) of Lucius Aemilius Quintus, perpetual flamen (priest), because he made continual effort to meet the needs of his province and because he brought its shared misfortunes to the
sacred (i.e. imperial) ears and obtained a remedy; the city council and the people of the splendid colony of Sabratha, in accordance with the decrees
of the whole province, dedicated (scil. this); Flavius Venantius took charge (scil. of the work).
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950, 36, whence AE 1950.149; IRT, 1952, 111, whence IRT, 2009, 111, whence EDH 021895, LSA, 2012, 2880 (U. Gehn); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 309)
