WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0116. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Three fragments probably, though not certainly, all from the same marble panel.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals, not earlier than second century CE a) 0.65 0.46 , right-hand edge; lettering, 0.065-0.075. b) 0.28 0.27 , left-hand edge; lettering: line 1, 0.08; line 2, 0.07; line 3, decapitated. c) 0.19 0.30 , no edges surviving. Lettering: line 1-2, 0.085; line 3, 0.07.

Date: not earlier than second century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[---]LA[---]
------ [ob hon]orem augur[atus]
[--- summ]ae honoraria[e]
[---]t ex (sestertiis) XX n(ummum) po-
5[suit ---?]-t Flauii Diodo ((stop))
[--- adi]ectis (sestertiis) IIID n(ummum)
------
b
stat[---]
MARC̣[---]
[---]
c
[---]o l[---]
[---]m qu[---]
[---]s oḅ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]LA[---]
------[.....]OREMAUGUR[....]
[---....]AEHONORARIA[.]
[---]TEX 𐆘 XXNPO
5[....---?]TFLAUIIDIODO
[---...]ECTIS 𐆘 IIIDN
------
b
STAT[---]
MAR.[---]
.[---]
c
[---]OL[---]
[---]MQU[---]
[---]SO.[---]

a.6: 497,000.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. [---on account of] the honour of the augurate [---] of the sum paid for the office [---] from 20,000 sesterces ?he set it up [---] of Flavius Diodo (Perhaps Diodorus) [---] with 497,000 sesterces added

(b and c not usefully translatable)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 116, whence IRT, 2009, 116, whence EDH 059102; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left: 116 c, a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 777 Leica)

   Fig. 3. From left: 113, 106.c; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 778 Leica)

   Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)