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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1328. Dedication to Victory

Description: Marble relief, of an aedicule containing a winged figure of Victory: w: 0.32 x h: 0.565
Text: Inscribed on the upper 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

Uictori-
ae Aug(ustae) sac(rum)
M(arcus)
Iunius
5 Crescens Afri fiḷ(ius)
IIuirum q(uin)q(uennalium) munerarius u(otum) s(oluit)

Diplomatic

UICTORI
AEAUGSAC
M
IUNIUS
5CRESCENSAFRIFI.
IIUIRUMQQMUNERARIUSUS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to Victoria Augusta: Marcus Junius Crescens, son of Afer, quinquennial duovir, giver of a public show, paid his vow.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard and Musso, 2018, 319, fig. 430, whence transcribed from photograph AE, 2018.1891, EDCS 73400454; a full edition by the authors is in preparation.

Images

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