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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0113. Honours for Numerius Avitus

Description: Eleven joining fragments from upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.83 x h: 0.62).
Text: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters: Late second to third centuries CE lapidary capitals: 0.06-0.07.

Date: 222-235 (prosopography)

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

Interpretive

P̣(ublio) [Alfi]o ((leaf)) P(ubli) ((leaf)) f(ilio) ((leaf)) G̣[a]leria (tribu)
Maximo Numerio
Auito [l]eg(ato) ((leaf)) c(larissimo) ((leaf)) u(iro) ((leaf))
rarissimo ((leaf))
5Sabrathenses ((leaf))
pub[l]ice ((leaf))
patrono ((leaf))

Diplomatic

.[....]O P F .[.]LERIA
MAXIMONUMERIO
AUITO[.]EG C U
RARISSIMO
5SABRATHENSES
PUB[.]ICE
PATRONO

1: P[ . . 4/5 . . ]o Perhaps P. [Alfi]o IRT, 1952
3: UGCU Perhaps u(iro) c(larissimo) cu(ratori) IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Publius [Alfius?] Maximus Numerius Avitus son of Publius, of the Roman voting tribe Galeria, excellent man (i.e. roman Senator) curator, most remarkable; the people of Sabratha publicly to a patron [---]

Commentary

Numerius: PIR, N 202 https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1207

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 113, whence IRT, 2009, 113, whence EDH 059099, Marmouri, 2015 ; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections., whence Epigraphica Romana 2015_57_001

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)

   Fig. 2. From left: 113, 106.c; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 778 Leica)

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)