WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0917. Dedication to Sol Inuictus by Peticius Pastor

Description: Keystone of an arch (w: 0.36-0.31 x h: 0.33 x d: 0.31) of dark limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a narrow border.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.035-0.04.

Date: 201-259 CE (context)

Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Transferred in 1947 to Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Soli
inuicto
sac(rum) Peti-
cius Past-
5or m(erito) u(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) a(nimo)

Diplomatic

SOLI
INUICTO
SACPETI
CIUSPAST
5ORMUSLA

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Sacred to the Unconquered Sun: Peticius Pastor paid his vow willingly to a god who has deserved it.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 917, whence IRT, 2009, 917, whence EDH 059757; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.19)