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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0907. Fragmentary votive text

Description: Fragmentary panel (w: 0.29 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.10) of pink limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Capitals: 0.045.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Ghadames: Found at an unidentified site in, or about, 1948
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Subsequently transported to Tunis

Interpretive

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[prae]tendent[es]
[Cy]damis uotu[m sol(uerunt)]
[li]b(entes) sub Ual[erio Sene]cione [leg(ato) Aug(usti)]
5 [pr(o)] pr(aetore) c(larissimo) [u(iro) ---]

Diplomatic

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[....]TENDENT[..]
[..]DAMISUOTU[.....]
[..]BSUBUAL[........]CIONE[......]
5[...]PRC[..---]

5: Rather than c[o(n)s(ule)...]; see 908.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] stationed ?in the forecamp at Cydamae; they paid their vow willingly under Valerius Senecio, legate of Augustus with propraetorian powers, splendid man( of senatorial status) [---]

Commentary

M. Valerius Senecio: PIR V 130: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/13971

Bibliography: Pflaum/Picard, 1951 3ff. , whence AE 1952.96; IRT, 1952, 907, whence IRT, 2009, 907, whence EDH 059748

Images

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