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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1107. Boundary marker

Description: Right side fragment of a limestone panel w: 0.45 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.17
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.025-0.05

Date: 74 CE: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Jabal Tarhunah: Gasr Masaud
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle

Interpretive

[Ex au]c̣ṭọritate
[Imp(eratoris) Ue]spasiani ((stop))
[Caes]aris ((stop)) Aug(usti) ((stop)) p(atris) p(atriae)
[po]ṇt(ificis) ((stop)) max(imi) ((stop)) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
5[V] [im]p(eratoris) ((stop)) X̣ỊỊỊ ((stop)) co(n)s(ulis) V desig(nati) ((stop)) VI
[Q(uintus) Iulius] C̣[ord]ịṇụṣ Ṛụṭịḷịụṣ
[Gallicus leg(atus) Aug(usti) pro pr(aetore)] c̣ọ(n)ṣ(ul) p̣ọṇṭ(ifex)
[limitem inter Lep]c̣ịṭanos
[et Oeenses derexit]

Diplomatic

[....]...RITATE
[.....]SPASIANI •
[....]ARIS • AUG • PP
[..].T • MAX • TRIBPOT
5[...]P • .... • COSVDESIG • VI
[.......].[...]............
[...................].......
[...............]...ANOS
[................]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

On the authority of [Emperor] Vespasian Caesar, Augustus, father of the country, high priest, holding tribunician power [for the 5th time], acclaimed victor for the 13th time, consul for the 5th time, designated for the 6th time: [Quintus Julius] Cordinus Rutilius [Gallicus propraetorian legate of Augustus] consul, priest, [determined the boundary between] the people of Lepcis [and the people of Oea].

Commentary

Compare 1120.

Q Iulius Cordinus C. Rutilius Gallicus: PIR R 0248, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7447

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1979 3, pp. 77-78, whence AE 1979.648, EDH 008545

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