Description: No description
Text: Presumably
inscribed
Letters: No description
Date: 24 CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea,
near the Arch of Marcus Aurelius;
described to Girard in 1670.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1654)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Dolabella, proconsul of the Romans, Tacfarinas having been defeated, restored ?the city of Oea, peace being preserved . . . and consecrated
Commentary
The authenticity of this text, copied in the 17th century, was doubted by Cumont (1925); but the discovery of IRT 1021 appears to confirm the reality of this report, although the terminology and the readings remain uncertain.
P. Cornelius Dolabella: PIR C 1348, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4860
Tacfarinas: PIR T 0003, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12869
Bibliography: Girard, 1685 f.22, whence Bartoccini, 1958 , AE 1961.108, EDH 017794
Images
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