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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0349a. Fragmentary dedication to Domitian (?)

Description: balustrade block (w: 0.67 x h: 0.53 surviving depth 0.51) of grey limestone, with moulding top and bottom and socket for 16 cm beam at the back.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: One line of Neo-Punic follows the Latin text. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.14; line 2 0.10. The surviving text of this line reads: [. . . provided] for the work the meqim elim [ . . . ]

Date: 81-96 CE (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Harbour among the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Dolichenus; seen by Delaporte in 1806
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Later presented to King George IV, and, since 1862, in the British Museum.

Interpretive

i
[--- Uespasian]ị ⟦f(ili) Dọm[itian]-⟧ [---]
[---] aug(?)- sufe[---]
ii
ᵓt lmlkt hmqm ᶜl m[---]

Diplomatic

i
[---.........].⟦FD.M[.....]⟧[---]
[---]AUGSUFE[---]
ii
ᵓTLMLKTHMQMᶜLM[---]

2: . . . Flamen] Aug(usti) or . . . ] aug(ur)

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

i. [---] Domitian (case unknown) son of [Uespasian ---] ? priest of Aug[ustus] ( or augur, i.e. priest), sufete [---]

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

ii. . . . for the work of the place on . . .

Commentary

Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Levi della Vida (1971), 457-469; Vattioni, F. 1971. 'Tripolitania 1 et Tobie, iii, 6' in 78, 242-246; Teixidor (1986), 215; Garbini, G. 1974. 'Dieci anni di epigrafia punica nel Magreb (1965-1974) in 6, 6; Garbini (1987), 12; Giardina (1988), 67-87; Elmayer (1997), Jongeling (2008), Labdah N1.

Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 13, whence CIL VIII, 1881, 7; Reynolds, 1951 118-119; IRT, 1952, 349, whence AE 1954.183a IRT, 2009, 349, whence EDH 067664; Levi Della Vida, 1927 92-93; Levi Della Vida, 1967 395-409; Levi Della Vida, 1987 9, whence Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N1; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Photo copyright British Museum)