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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0536. Honours for L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus

Description: Left-hand side of a marble panel (surviving width, w: 0.61 x h: 0.58).
Text: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters: Second century CE lapidary capitals: line 1-2, 0.11; line 3-4, 0.075; line5, 0.065.

Date: 149-150 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

L(ucio) Minicio [Natali]
Quadron[io]
Uero proco[(n)s(uli)]
Afric(ae) patr[ono]
5Lepcitani pu[bl(ice)]

Diplomatic

LMINICIO[......]
QUADRON[..]
UEROPROCO[.]
AFRICPATR[...]
5LEPCITANIPU[..]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Lucius Minicius [Natalis] Quadronius Verus, proconsul of Africa, their patron, the Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) publicly.

Commentary

Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus: PIR M 0620, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/9305; Thomasson 2009 39:086

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 536, IRT, 2009, 536, whence EDH 030808; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIII.12)