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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1109. Private dedication

Description: Limestone altar, broken away above: w: 0.36 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.36. A groove down the back suggests that it was attached to a wall.
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a moulded panel
Letters: 0.035-0.04

Date: Second to third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Ghadames: findspot unknown. Found by C.J. Barron in 1955
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Ghadames Museum

Interpretive

[---Fortu?-]
nae Aug(ustae)
sacrum
M(arcus) Aureli-
5us Ianu-
arius ((centurio))
leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae)
P(iae) U(indicis)
s(oluit) l(ibens) a(nimo)

Diplomatic

[---.....-]
NAEAUG
SACRUM
MAURELI
5USIANU
ARIUS 𐆛
LEGIIIAUG
PU
SLA

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to [?Fortu]na Augusta: Marcus Aurelius Ianuarius, centurion of the Third Legion Augusta, Pia, Vindex, fulfilled (scil. his vow) with a free will.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1958 1, page 135, whence AE 1960.264 EDH 019027

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Barron, 1955)