Honours for Augustus, and building inscription for the Market
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: 8 BCE: GODOT and GODOT
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] 3-15 [...] XVIII:72-77, whence [...] 1951.205; [...], 319, whence [...], 319, whence [...] 021415 [...] 45-50 [...] 48-53, whence [...] Labdah N13; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Imperator Caesar Diui filius Augustus consul XI imperator XIIII tribunicia potestate XV pontifex maximus

Marco Licinio Marci filio Crasso Frugi consule augure proconsule patrono flaminibus Augusti Caesaris Iddibale Arinis filio [...]one et[...] Annobalis filio [...]on[...] sufetibus Muttun Annonis filio [...]

Annobal Himilcho filius Tapapius Rufus sufes flamen praefectus sacrorum de sua pequnia faciundum coerauit idemque dedicauit

a. Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of deified Caesar, consul for the eleventh time, acclaimed victor fourteen times, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, chief priest.

b. When Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, son of Marcus, consul, augur, was proconsul and patron and the flamines of Augustus Caesar were Iddibal [...]on son of Arin and [...] son of Annobal [...], and the sufetes were Muttur son of Annoand[...]

[c.] Annobal Tapapius Rufus son of Imilcho [corrected to Himilcho], sufete, flamen [local priest], prefect in charge of sacred things, saw to its construction and also dedicated it.

The text is clearly the Latin version of NeoPunic 27, found within the Market building. The Neo-Punic inscription follows the Latin word for word, with particular Latin formulae such as Imperator, diui filius and consul translated into Punic.

Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Levi della Vida (1971), 457-469; Jongeling, K. 1983, ‘Neo-punische-latijnse inscripties uit Lepcis Magna (Libye)’ in 13, 414; Amadasi Guzzo, M.G. 1986. 'L'onomastica nelle iscrizioni puniche tripolitane' in 14, 21-51; Fontana (2001), 165; Adams (2003), 222-223; Jongeling (2008), Labdah N13; Cooley (2012), 256-258; Kerr, R. 2017, 'Præsenti tibi maturos largimur honores.Zum punischen Prinzip des kaiserlichen Opferkultes zuLepcis Magna' in R.G. Lehmann, K. Park and A.E. Zernecke (eds.) Proceedings of the Twelfth Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH) and Cognate Languages, Johannes Gutenberg Universityof Mainz, 2015, 53-74.

a: M. Licinius Crassus Frugi: PIR L 189, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/8319

b, line 1: The name of the second flamen, lost in the Latin text, appears as Abdmelqart in the Neo-Punic.

c, line 1: For Annobal Tapapius Rufus. s. of Himilcho Tapapius, see also 321, 322 and 323.