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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1050. Dedication ?of an ideal statue for emperors

Description: Limestone statue base w: 0.61 x h: 1.09 x d: 0.40; from a group of matching bases: 1050, 1051, 1016, 1052.
Text: Inscribed over an erased earlier text, after the base had also been used as a fountain.
Letters: 0.07-0.08

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

1
Saluis ((stop)) d((stop))d(ominis) ((stop)) n((stop))n(ostris)
2
Fl(auius) Lucreti-
us ((stop)) Floren-
tinus
Rusticus ((stop)) u(ir) p(erfectissimus) ((stop)) pr(aeses)
5conlocauit

Diplomatic

1
SALUIS • D • D • N • N
2
FLLUCRETI
US • FLOREN
TINUS
RUSTICUS • UP • PR
5CONLOCAUIT

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: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 88, whence LSA, 2012, 2219 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 067628.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)

 
 
 
 
 


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