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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1326. Dedication to Nemesis

Description: Marble relief of an aedicule containing a griffon: w: 0.44 x h: 0.58
Text: Inscribed above and within the moulding
Letters: No measurements

Date: Mid second century CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Road from the Circus to the Port, Amphitheatre.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Nemesi Aug(ustae)
M(arcus) Iuṇị[us]
Crescenṣ
Afr(i)
5 fiḷ(ius)
IIuir
q(uin)q(uennalis)
mune-
rarius
10u(otum) s(oluit)

Diplomatic

NEMESIAUG
MIU..[..]
CRESCEN.
AFR
5FI.
IIUIR
QQ
MUNE
RARIUS
10US

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To Nemesis Augusta: Marcus Junius Crescens, son of Afer, quinquennial duovir, giver of a public show, paid his vow.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard and Musso, 2018, 318, fig. 428, whence transcribed from photograph AE, 2018.1889, EDCS 81300110, with an image 73400459; a full edition by the authors is in preparation.

Images

None available (2021).