WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0560. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Grey limestone Base with moulding above and below (w: 0.70 x h: 1.55 x d: 0.50).
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.55 x h: 0.95), much worn or deliberately erased.
Letters: Capitals:0.06.

Date: First to third centuries CE (titulature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the South East Portico of the Curia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive


-ṇo Casto
tr(ibuno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae)
ciues B[c. 7] VI
5Lepcit[ani ---]

Diplomatic


.OCASTO
TRMILLEGIIIAUG
CIUESB[·······]VI
5LEPCIT[...---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To (erased name)[---]nus Castus, military tribune in Legion III Augusta; the citizens [c. 10] the Lepcitanians [---] (all erased)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 560, whence IRT, 2009, 560, whence EDH 059432; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.29)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo, 2003