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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1327. Dedication to Nemesis

Description: Marble relief, broken into four fragments, of an aedicule containing a griffon: w: 0.44 x h: 0.58
Text: Inscribed above and within the moulding, and around the relief
Letters: No measurements

Date: Mid second century CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Road from the Circus to the Port, Amphitheatre.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Nemes[i Aug(ustae)]
[M(arcus)] Ịunius
[Crescens]
Afr(i)
5 [fiḷ(ius)]
IIuir
q(uin)q(uennalis) mu-
nerari-
us
10u(otum) s(oluit)

Diplomatic

NEMES[....]
[.].UNIUS
[........]
AFR
5[...]
IIUIR
QQMU
NERARI
US
10US

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To Nemesis Augusta: Marcus Junius Crescens, son of Afer, quinquennial duovir, giver of a public show, paid his vow.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard and Musso, 2018, 318, fig. 429, whence transcribed from photograph AE, 2018.1890, EDCS 81300111, with an image, 73400460 ; a full edition by the authors is in preparation.

Images

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