WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0596b. Donation by M. Fuluius Saturninus

Description: Right-hand side of a rectangular base of grey limestone: surviving w: 0.35 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.19; closely similar to IRT 596b
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.055; line 2, 0.045.

Date: First to second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[M(arcus) Fuluius Satu]rninus
[flamen Ti(beri) Caesa]ris Aug(usti) d(ono) d(edit)

Diplomatic

[............]RNINUS
[.............]RISAUGDD

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Marcus Fulvius Satu]rninus, [flamen of Tiberius Caesa]r Augustus, gave (scil. this) as a gift

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 596.b, whence IRT, 2009, 596, whence EDH 067673; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.33)