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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1329. Dedication to Mars

Description: Marble relief of an aedicule containing a figure of Mars: w: 0.355 x h: 0.56
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding and around the relief figure
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

Ṃạrti
[Aug(usto) sac(rum)]
M(arcus)
Iunius Crescens
5 Afri fiḷ(ius)
IIuir
q(uin)q(uennalis) mu-
nerari-
us
10 u(otum) s(oluit)

Diplomatic

..RTI
[......]
M
IUNIUSCRESCENS
5AFRIFI.
IIUIR
QQMU
NERARI
US
10US

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sacred to Mars Augustus: Marcus Junius Crescens, son of Afer, quinquennial duovir, giver of a public show, paid his vow.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard and Musso, 2018, 319, fig. 431, whence transcribed from photograph AE, 2018.1892, EDCS 73400455; a full edition by the authors is in preparation.

Images

None available (2021).