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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0717. Honours for M. Iunius Cossus

Description: Marble block (w: 0.64 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.35).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.035-0.04.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio II, Hadrianic Baths; In the street immediately East of the baths, built into the back wall of the second taberna .
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

M(arco) Iunio Cosso Marci f(ilio)
Iunius Silanus
fratri optimo

Diplomatic

MIUNIOCOSSOMARCIF
IUNIUSSILANUS
FRATRIOPTIMO

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Marcus Junius Cossus, son of Marcus; Junius Silanus to a very good brother.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, X717XX, whence IRT, 2009, 717, whence EDH 059566; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1626 Leica)