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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0545. Honours for a proconsul

Description: Five blocks of grey limestone from a monumental inscription. Four are from an upper course (together, originally w: 2.97 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) and one from a lower course (w: 1.10 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.42).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1-4, 0.07; lines 5-9, 0.06.

Date: After CE 139 (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio II, Hadrianic Baths, found cut for re-use as voussoirs and lying scattered in the Caldarium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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⟦co(n)s(uli) pro[co(n)s(uli) prou(inciae) Af]ric(ae) XVuir(o) sacr(is) fa⟧[ciundis curat]or(i) ạẹ[d]ịụṃ ṣạc̣(rarum) [et]
⟦operum [publ(icorum) leg(ato) p]ro pr(aetore)⟧ Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) Traiani Ha[driani] Aug(usti) prouinc(iae)
⟦Cappadoc[iae] [leg(ato)] pro pr(aetore)⟧ Imp(eratoris) C[a]es(aris) Traiani Hadrian[i A]ug(usti) pro⟦uinciae⟧
5 ⟦Mo[e]siae I[nferioris]⟧ [le]g(ato) pro pr(aetore) I[mp(eratoris)] Caes(aris) diui Traiani [Au]g(usti) prouinciae
[Ciliciae cur]atori uiae Latinae [leg(ato) leg(ionis) VI Ferratae don(is) milit(aribus) don(ato)]
[ab Imp(eratore) Tra]iano Aug(usto) ob bellum [Parthicum pr(aetori) aed(ili) pleb(eio) quaest(ori)]
[prou(inciae) Hisp(aniae) B]aetic(ae) Ulterioris tribun(o) lat[ic(lauio) leg(ionis) I Mineruiae donis milit(aribus) don(ato)]
[ab Imp(eratore) Aug(usto) ob] bellum Marcomannicum [triumuiro capitali ---]
10 [--- Le]pcit[ani ---]

Diplomatic

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⟦COSPRO[...][......]RICXVUIRSACRFA⟧[............]OR..[.]......[..]
⟦OPERUM[..........]ROPR⟧IMPCAESTRAIANIHA[......]AUGPROUINC
⟦CAPPADOC[...][....]PROPR⟧IMPC[.]ESTRAIANIHADRIAN[..]UGPRO⟦UINCIAE⟧
5⟦MO[.]SIAEI[.........]⟧[..]GPROPRI[..]CAESDIUITRAIANI[..]GPROUINCIAE
[...........]ATORIUIAELATINAE[...........................]
[........]IANOAUGOBBELLUM[........................]
[.........]AETICULTERIORISTRIBUNLAT[..][..........................]
[..........]BELLUMMARCOMANNICUM[.................---]
10[---..]PCIT[...---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] consul, proconsul [of the province of] Africa, member of the committee of fifteen for sacred affairs, curator of sacred buildings and public works, legate with propraetorian powers (so far all erased) of emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus in the province of Cappadocia, propraetorian legate (erased from Cappadocia) of emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus in the province of Moesia inferior (erased from in), propraetorian legate of Emperor Caesar Trajan Augustus in the province [of Cilicia], curator of the Latin Road, [legate of legiona VI Ferrata, awarded military decorations by emperor] Trajan Augustus for the [Parthian] war, [praetor, plebeian aedile, quaestor of the province of Hispania] Baetica Ulterior, senatorial tribune [of legion I Minervia, awarded military honours by emperor Augustus for ] the Marcomannic war, [member of the committee of three concerned with capital crimes---] the Lepcitanians [---]

Commentary

The man honoured is C. Bruttius Praesens L. Fulvius Rusticus: PIR B 0164; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/3030; the partial erasure of his career perhaps follows the damnatio of his granddaughter, Crispina Augusta.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 91 ff; Pflaum/Picard, 1951 1; IRT, 1952, 545, whence Thomasson, 1996 68b, IRT, 2009, 545, whence EDH 030778; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 252 Lastre)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 251 Lastre)


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