Description: Block (w:
0.42 x h:
0.30).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late second to third century capitals.
Date: 205-209 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Bu Njem: on the hill below the
Temple of Jupiter Ammon
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Interpretive
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[nobilis]simi Cae[s(aris) et Iuliae Aug(ustae) matris]
[cast]ṛọr(um) totiusq̣[ue domus diuinae ---]
[---] leg(ato) Augg⟦[g]⟧[(ustorum)] pr(o) p̣[r(aetore) Tullius Romulus ?]
[((centurio)) ex ma]ịorario pra[ep(ositus) uex(illationis) leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis)]
5[---]us Longini[---]
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Diplomatic
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[.......]SIMICAE[.][.................]
[....]..RTOTIUS.[..............---]
[---]LEGAUGG⟦[.]⟧[]PR.[.][..............]
[....].ORARIOPRA[..][..............]
5[---]USLONGINI[---]
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[? For the safety of our emperors Septimius Severus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Geta] most noble Caesar and Julia Augusta
mother of the camps and the whole divine household [ . . . when ? was ] legate of the Augusti with propraetorian powers [?Tullius
Romulus centurion, formerly ma]joriarius, commanding [a company of the Third Legion Augusta, Pia, Vindex . . . ] of Longinus
[ . . .
Bibliography: Faure, 2013, 100.2, whence AE 2013.1767, EDCS 69200157
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