Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.52 x h:
0.85 x d:
0.57) of coarse grey limestone, broken down the right-hand edge;
uniform with 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w:
0.37 x h:
0.70, height not complete).
Letters: Local second to third centuries CE capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.035-0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Forum, standing against the
North portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
5: Or Caelest (ia) .
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caius [Flavius] Pudens, son of [Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria], perpetual [ flamen] (scil. priest), the Curia Caelestis, on account of his merits.
Bibliography: Mentioned Bartoccini, 1950 47, 58, whence mentioned AE 1950.152a; IRT, 1952, 119, whence IRT, 2009, 119, whence EDH 021907; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 846 Leica)