WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1005. Dedication for a monument

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)

Interpretive

[c. 7] Dolabella Rom(anorum) proco(nsul)
Tacfa(rinate) debel(lato) ciuitas Oeam rest(ituit)
pac(e) conseru(ata) POP APHR PROT
[c. 12] et consec(rauit)

Diplomatic

[·······]DOLABELLAROMPROCO
TACFADEBELCIUITASOEAMREST
PACCONSERUPOPAPHRPROT
[············]ETCONSEC

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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