Description: 58 fragments of a marble
panel (w:
1.48 x h:
0.68 x d:
0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face; line 10 is outset
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: average 0.05; line 11, 0.02.
Date: Nouember 324-March 326 (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now recomposed in Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
Quod inter cetera ciuitatis Lepcimagnensium
moenia quae cum sui magnitudine et splendo-
re concordant etiam porticuum macelli in rui-
nam [lab]ẹmque conuersam remanere nudam
5 ult[ra?c. 18]ret ((stop)) quod esset in usu
ac f[c. 23] ḥort[a]nte clemen-
tia [diuina? dddd(ominorum)] ṇnnn(ostrorum) ((stop)) F[l(aui)] Cons[t]antini ((stop)) max(imi) ((stop))
[uict(ori) semp(er) Aug(usti) et Fl(aui) Iul(i) Cri]ṣpi et ((stop)) Fl(aui) ((stop)) [Cl]ạudị Co[n]stantini
et F[l(aui) Iul(ii) Constanti no]b(i)ll(issimorum) ((stop)) Caess(arum) ((stop)) [dispone]ṇte ac dedicante ((stop))
10Laenatio Romulo [u(iro) p(erfectissimo) p(raeside) p(rouinciae) Tripol(itanae) c. 4 amp]ḷiorem [c. 13]am gratiam et pulchritu-
[dinem c. 12] sum<p>ti[bus publice? submin]istratis
Diplomatic
QUODINTERCETERACIUITATISLEPCIMAGNENSIUM
MOENIAQUAECUMSUIMAGNITUDINEETSPLENDO
RECONCORDANTETIAMPORTICUUMMACELLIINRUI
NAM[...].MQUECONUERSAMREMANERENUDAM
5ULT[..··················]RET • QUODESSETINUSU
ACF[·······················].ORT[.]NTECLEMEN
TIA[...........].NNN • F[.]CONS[.]ANTINI • MAX •
[.....................].PIET • FL • [..].UD.CO[.]STANTINI
ETF[.][..............]BLL • CAESS • [.......].TEACDEDICANTE •
10LAENATIOROMULO[..........····...].IOREM[·············]AMGRATIAMETPULCHRITU
[.....············]SUMTI[................]ISTRATIS
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Because among other affairs of the city of the Lepcimagnensians the walls which ?are appropriate to its size and splendour,
also the portico of the market [fallen] into ruin and destruction to remain bare [---] which was in use and [c. 20] with encouragement from the clemency [c. 9] of our [ lords Flavius] Constantinus the very great [and Valerius Licinius and Flavius] Crispus and Flavius Claudius Constantinus
and Flavius [Ualerius Licinius] noble Caesars; [---] and dedicating Laenatius Romulus [excellent man ( i.e. equestrian), governor of the province of Tripolitania---] fuller [and?] grace and beauty [---] ? with the costs [---] having been administered.
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Poiché, tra gli edifici della città di Leptis Magna che concordano con la sua grandezza e il suo splendore, anche il portico
del mercato, ridotto a rovina e in disgrazia . . . rimanere spoglio ulteriormente (?) . . . e che fosse in uso . . . e . .
. incitati dalla clemenza dei nostri (quattro) signori Flavio Costantino, massimo, vincitore, per sempre Augusto, e Flavio
Giulio Crispo e Flavio Claudio Costantino e Flavio Giulio Costanzo nobilissimi Cesari . . . dispose (?) e dedicò Laenatius
Romulus, uomo perfettissimo, governatore della Prouincia di Tripolitania . . . più grande . . . grazia e bellezza . . . con
fondi forniti dalle casse pubbliche (?).
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1939, 117 ff., fig. 6, whence AE 1948.40; Guey, 1951a , whence AE 1952, page 56; IRT, 1952, 468, whence Chastagnol, 1966 , IRT, 2009, 468; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 73, EDH (Bigi, 2014) 021549; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 764)
Fig. 2. Fragments assembled, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 3. Assembled: Tantillo (2006)
Fig. 4. Upper left: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 5. Lower left: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 6. Upper centre: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 7. Lower centre: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 8. Upper right: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 9. Lower right: Tantillo (2004)
