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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0527. Fragmentary honours

Description: block (w: 1.05 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.51) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face; apparently uniform with 528.
Letters: Irregular capitals: from top of block, line 1, 0.03-0.12; line 2, 0.15-0.23; line 3, 0.27-0.33; line4, 0.35-0.40; line5, 0.42-0.47; to bottom, 0.51.

Date: After CE 81, before CE 94 (titulature, prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the Baptistry.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]ịani prouinciae
[--- trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) V] [A]laudae IIIIuir(o) uiar(um)
[cur(andarum) --- praef(ecto) auxiliorum omnium aduersus Germ]anos donis donato
[ab Imp(eratore) Uespasiano Aug(usto) et T(ito) Aug(usti) f(ilio) --- hastis puri]s duabus uexillis duob(us)
5[--- adlecto] inter patricios
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Diplomatic

[---].ANIPROUINCIAE
[---..............]LAUDAEIIIIUIRUIAR
[...---.................................]ANOSDONISDONATO
[.........................---..........]SDUABUSUEXILLISDUOB
5[---.......]INTERPATRICIOS
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[--- the---]iani of the province. To [--- , military tribune of legion V] Alaudae, member of the committee of four in charge of road maintenance (scil. in Italy) [--- prefect of all the auxiliary troops assembled against the Germ]ans, awarded military honours [by Emperor Vespasian Augustus and Titus son of Augustus, ---] two [silver spears], two banners, [--- adlected] into patrician status [---]

Commentary

Perhaps Cn. Domitius Lucanus: PIR D 0152, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/5427. .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 527, whence IRT, 2009, 527, whence Thomasson, 1996 53c; EDH 030736; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 757)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.22)