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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1016. Dedication ?of an ideal statue for emperors

Description: Limestone statue base w: 61 x h: 74 x d: 37; from a group of matching bases: 1050, 1051, 1016, 1052.
Text: Inscribed on the front panel (w: 28 x h: 72
Letters: 0.8-0.10

Date: 355-360 or 364-367 CE (prosopography, reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, reused in a wall.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Saluis d(ominis) n(ostris)
( vac. ) Fl(auius) ( vac. )
Lucretius
Florentinus
5Rusticus u(ir) p(erfectissimus) {p}
praes(es) conlocaụịṭ

Diplomatic

SALUISDDNN
      FL      
LUCRETIUS
FLORENTINUS
5RUSTICUSUPP
PRAESCONLOCA...

Italian translation

Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010

Per la salvezza dei nostri signori! Flavius Lucretius Florentinus Rusticus, uomo perfettissimo, governatore, collocò.

English translation

Translation source: LSA, 2012

For the safety of our lords. Flavius Lucretius Florentinus Rusticus, of perfectissimus rank, governor (praeses), set this here.

Commentary

Fl. Lucretius Florentinus Rusticus: PLRE I, Rusticus 1.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1961, 108 and fig. 8, whence AE 1963.144b.1. (B); Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 90 and fig. 10.106, 107 , whence LSA, 2012, 2221 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 017197

Images

   Fig. 1. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)

   Fig. 2. Photograph (from Bartoccini)