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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0305. Dedication to Neptune Augustus

Description: Left half of a rectangular base (w: 0.39 x h: 0.74 x d: 0.68) of yellow limestone marked with red; inscribed on one face.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face: i above ii
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.07, lines 4- 5, 0.045.

Date: First-second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Punic Market, in the South West portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
Neptu[no]
Aug(usto) s[ac](rum)
C(aius) Sossius [c. 5]-
-nus IIIIu[ir aed(ilicia)]
5pot(estate) de sua [pecunia posuit]
ii
[---]ᶜydls qwᶜṭrbr lmb̊[---]kḥ̊ bt[m]

Diplomatic

i
NEPTU[..]
AUGS[..]
CSOSSIUS[·····]
NUSIIIIU[.....]
5POTDESUA[.............]
ii
[---]ᶜYDLSQWᶜṬRBRLM.[---]K.BT[.]

5: . . . ]/pot(estate) IRT, 2009; aed(ilicia) pot(estate) Guey, 1953

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

i. Sacred to Neptune Augustus, Caius Sossius [---]nus, quattuor-vir with [---] powers, (scil. set this up) at his own expense.

[ ]edile, quattuorvir [ ]at his own expense

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

ii. [ ]edile, quattuorvir [ ]at his own expense

Commentary

Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Jongeling, K. 1983, ‘Neo-punische-latijnse inscripties uit Lepcis Magna (Libye)’ in , 413; Adams (2003), 221-222; Jongeling (2008), Labdah N21; Cooley (2012), 253.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 305, whence IRT, 2009, 305, whence discussed Guey, 1953 353-60, whence AE 1954.201l; Février-della Vida, 1953 358-60, whence Levi Della Vida, 1987 30, whence Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N21 EDH 018206; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 200)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 644)

   Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)