WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0263. votive offering of building work to Asclepius

Description: Moulded base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.50) of compact brown limestone, damaged above.
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.45 x h: 0.45). Line 8 is incised on the lower border.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals, probably third century CE: 0.03-0.04.

Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio II, Hadrianic Baths beside the Natatio, to the south.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

P(ublius) Cornelius Attax
Marcianus
L(ucius) Appius Amicus
Rufinianus
5curr(atores) refectionis
thermarum tert(ium)
Deo Aesculapio
( vac. 4) u(otum) s(oluerunt) ( vac. 4)

Diplomatic

PCORNELIUSATTAX
MARCIANUS
LAPPIUSAMICUS
RUFINIANUS
5CURRREFECTIONIS
THERMARUMTERT
DEOAESCULAPIO
        US        

6: tert(iae) Romanelli, 1925

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Publius Cornelius Attax Marcianus (scil. and) Lucius Appius Amicus Rufinianus, in charge for the third time of the restoration of the baths, paid their vow to the god Aesculapius.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 125; Bartoccini, 1929, 80, fig. 82; Bartoccini, 1925a, 308 , whence AE, 1925.105; IRT, 1952, 263, whence IRT, 2009, 263, whence Benseddik, 2010 59 EDH (Bigi, 2014) 025849; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1082)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)