WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1051. Dedication ?of an ideal statue for emperors

Description: Limestone statue base w: 0.61 x h: -0.74 x d: 0.37; from a group of matching bases: 1050, 1051, 1016, 1052.
Text: Inscribed over an erased earlier text, after the base had been used also as a fountain
Letters: 0.08-0.10

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

1
Saluis ((stop)) dd(ominis) ((stop)) nn(ostris)
2
F( vac. )l(auius) ((stop))
Lucretius
Florenti-
( vac. )nus ( vac. )
5Rusticus
u(ir) ((stop)) p(erfectissimus) ((stop)) praes(es)
conlocauit

Diplomatic

1
SALUIS DD NN
2
F      L
LUCRETIUS
FLORENTI
      NUS      
5RUSTICUS
U P PRAES
CONLOCAUIT

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, 89, whence LSA, 2012, 2220 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 067630

Images

   Fig. 1. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)