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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0538. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: No description
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: No description; colon for stop

Date: First to third centuries CE (titulature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Harbour area; "près du port"; recorded by Girard in 1670
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1670)

Interpretive

[---] Proculus [leg(atus) p]ro pr(aetore) ((stop)) dedicauit
C(aius) Maecius Cn(aei) f(ilius) Faḷ(erna tribu) ((stop)) F̣ḷaccus sua p[ecunia fecit]

Diplomatic

[---]PROCULUS[....]ROPR • DEDICAUIT
CMAECIUSCNFFA. • ..ACCUSSUAP[...........]

2: HACCUS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Proculus, ? propraetorian legate, dedicated (scil. this); Caius Maecius Flaccus, son of Cnaeus, of the Roman voting tribe Falerna, set it up at his own expense.

Bibliography: Girard, 1685 f.20v., whence Cumont, 1925, 154, 157; IRT, 1952, 538, whence Thomasson, 1996 80; IRT, 2009, 538, whence EDH 031042

Images

   Fig. 1. Girard, Histoire, f. 20-21 (Source gallica.bnf.fr)


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