WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0589. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Rectangular marble base (w: 0.74 x h: 0.56) partly recomposed from fragments and carrying a male statue.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0 045.

Date: Perhaps of first century CE (statue)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio III, Chalcidicum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: now in the store-rooms beside the Theatre.

Interpretive

Aemilio [c. 6 - 7] flam[in]i [Aug]usti

Diplomatic

AEMILIO[c. 6 - 7]FLAM[..]I[...]USTI

1: [c. 6 - 7] The first stroke of the second word is an upright.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Aemilius [---] flamen (priest) of Augustus.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 589, whence IRT, 2009, 589, whence EDH 020059; discussed Caputo, 1956 , whence AE 1958.268; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR ?.XVII.16)