WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0128. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.32).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second century CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2-3, 0.07.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults, see 1, note 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

[---] fil(ius) Pa[p](iria tribu) [---]
[--- fla]m(en) perpe[tuus ---]
[--- IIui]ṛ q(uin)q(uennalis) q[---]

Diplomatic

[---]FILPA[.---]
[---...]MPERPE[....---]
[---....].QQQ[---]

1: Or Pa[l] (atina) .
3: Possibly q(uaestor) .

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] son [of---], of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, [---] perpetual flamen (scil. priest), [---] duovir in a fifth year [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 128, whence IRT, 2009, 128, whence EDH 059104; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Upper row: 26a, 26b, 26c; Middle row: 19 (above), 25c (below), 17, 128 (above), 64 (below); Lower row: 25b, 625a, 20: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219 (part))