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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0120. Honours for C. Flavius Pudens

Description: Damaged rectangular base (surviving width w: 0.47 x h: 0.89 x d: 0.59) of coarse grey limestone, uniform with 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, die not precisely measurable.
Letters: Local second to third century CE capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.03-0.04.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Basilica, standing against the east wall of the south aisle of the later church.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[C(aio) F]l(auio) Q(uinti) fil(io) Pap(iria tribu)
Pudenti
flam(ini) perp(etuo)
Curia Faus[t-]
5[i]na ob meri
ta

Diplomatic

[..]LQFILPAP
PUDENTI
FLAMPERP
CURIAFAUS[.-]
5[.]NAOBMERI
TA

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 Faustina, on account of his merits.

Commentary

Lines 1-2: Caius Flauius Pudens: also in 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125.

Bibliography: Mentioned Bartoccini, 1950 47, 58, whence mentioned AE 1950.152a; IRT, 1952, 120, whence IRT, 2009, 120, whence EDH 021910; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.30)