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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0920. Dedication to Jupiter Hammon

Description: Block (w: 0.46 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.63) of pitted grey limestone, damaged below..
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late second to third century capitals: 0.07.

Date: 205-209 CE (reign)

Findspot: Bu Njem: Temple of Jupiter Ammon, about 1 km north of the fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Ioui Hammon(i)
red(uci) Aug(usti) sacr(um)
Tullius Ro-
mulus ((centurio)) ex ma-
5[i]oriario prae-
[posit]us ue-
[xillationi ---]

Diplomatic

IOUIHAMMON
REDAUGSACR
TULLIUSRO
MULUS 𐆛 EXMA
5[.]ORIARIOPRAE
[.....]USUE
[..........---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to Jupiter Hammon who brings the emperor home; Tullius Romulus, centurion, formerly majoriarius, in charge of the detachment [ . . ..

Commentary

See also 1054

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 920, whence IRT, 2009, 920, whence EDH 059760, Faure, 2013, 100.1; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.18)