Description:
block (w:
1.29 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.51) of fine-grained grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face; apparently uniform with 527.
Letters: Irregular capitals: from top of block: line 1, 0.03-0.115; line 2, 0.15-0.23; line 3, 0.265-0.325; line 4, 0.35-0.40; line
5, 0.42-0.465; 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
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[proco(n)s(uli) prouin]ciae Africae
[c. 25 VII]uir(o) epul(onum) fetiali praefec(to)
[auxiliorum omnium aduersus Germa]nos qui cum esset candidat(us)
5[Caesar(is) pr(aetor) des(ignatus) missus est ab Imp(eratore) Uespasian]o Aug(usto) leg(ato) pro pr(aetore) exercit(us) qui
est
[in Africa c. 10 donato ab Im]p(eratore) Uespasiano Aug(usto) et T(ito) Aug(usti) f(ilio)
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Diplomatic
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[............]CIAEAFRICAE
[·························...]UIREPULFETIALIPRAEFEC
[.............................]NOSQUICUMESSETCANDIDAT
5[..................................]OAUGLEGPROPREXERCITQUIEST
[........··········..........]PUESPASIANOAUGETTAUGF
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1: An upper course is missing.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [--- proconsul] of the province of Africa, [---] member of the committee of [seven] in charge of feasts and of the committee of priests concerned with treaties, prefect [of
all the auxiliary troops assembled against] the Germans, who, when he was Caesar's candidate and designated praetor, was sent
by Emperor Vespasian Augustus to be legate with praetorian powers of the army which is [in Africa c. 10 , awarded by] Emperor Vespasian Augustus and Titus son of Augustus [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 528, whence Thomasson, 1996 53d; IRT, 2009, 528, whence EDH 030739; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.21)
