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 [---]
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)