WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0591. Fragmentary honours?

Description: The reverse face of 426. Marble block (w: 0.51 x h: 0.34 x d: 1.42).
Text: Inscribed on the two end faces.
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.09; dot for stop.

Date: Third quarter of the third century CE (lettering, context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: , Forum Severianum, at the angle of the East and South Porticoes.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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((stop)) Clementis ((stop)) u(iri) ((stop)) e(gregii) ((stop)) fil(io) ((stop)) a militi<i>s
ciui ((stop)) patrono ((stop)) ordo spl(endidissimus) ((stop)) Lepc(imagnensium?)

Diplomatic

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CLEMENTIS U E FIL AMILITIS
CIUI PATRONO ORDOSPL LEPC

1: Uffil Amilitis IRT, 1952

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] ?Amilitis, son of Clement, eminent man (of equestrian status) citizen and patron, the most splendid city council of the Lepcimagnensians (scil. set this up)

Italian translation

Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010

A . . . figlio di Clemente uomo egregio, che ha ricoperto le milizie equestri, al concittadino e patrono, l’ordine splendidissimo di Leptis Magna.

English translation

Translation source: LSA, 2012

To ... , son of Clemens of egregius rank, equestrian officer, citizen, patron. The most splendid council (ordo) of Lepcis Magna [set this up].

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 591, whence IRT, 2009, 591; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 49, whence LSA, 2012, 2195 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059333; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 228)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2004)

   Fig. 3. View of left side and 426: Tantillo (2003)