WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1333. Dedication to Apollo

Description: Rectangular marble relief panel in three fragments with a figure of Diana, very damaged: w: 0.69 x h: 0.90
Text: Inscribed lines 1-2 beside the relief and 3-5 on the lower moulding
Letters: No measurements

Date: Late second - early third century CE (context)

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

Interpretive

Bono
[Eu]entui
[---C]ẹrealis conduct(or) tertịụ[m ---]
[--- proui]nciae Af[r]ị[cae ---]
5[---] ḅ(ene) m(erenti)

Diplomatic

BONO
[..]ENTUI
[---.].REALISCONDUCTTERT..[.---]
[---.....]NCIAEAF[.].[...---]
5[---].M

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To Good Outcome: [ . . . ] Cerealis, contractor for the thirds [ . . . ]of the province of Africa [ . . . ] well deserving.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard and Musso, 2018, 323, fig. 435, whence transcribed from photograph AE, 2018.1896, whence EDCS 73400461; a full edition by the authors is in preparation.

Images

None available (2021).