https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10423171

 

Editor: L.Cappelletti

 

Text:

 

[- Cl]ạụdius Iụ[st]us I[Ivir et patro]-

nus ṃụṇicip[i] Ṃẹ[lit(ensium) —]

ṃạṛmoreụṃ cum ṣimụ[lacro —]

et [ọ]ṃni ṣụo orṇạtu p̣ṛ[o honore]

5   decuriọṇạṭụṣ [- C̣]ḷau[di —]

secundum pollicita[tionem suam]

exstruxit consecra[vitque in]

quod opus amplius qua[m promiserat]

erogavi[t (sestertia) —]

 

(EDR112554)

 

Translation: “Claudius Iustus, duumvir and patron of the municipium of the Melitenses, in accordance with his promise, built and consecrated a marble [podium? temple?] with a statue and all its ornaments on account of the charge of the decurionship of Claudius, a work for which he spent more than he had promised [sesterces?] “. (L.Cappelletti) 

Find Spot: Mdina, Malta; discovery in 1868 near the Benedictine monastery of S. Pietro

Support: marble slab (h. 46,5 cm; w. 52,8 cm; d. 15 cm)

No./Current location: Mdina, Museo della Cattedrale

Dating: 1st cent. AD (EDR112554 et alii). End of the 1st – beginning of the 2nd cent. AD (ASHBY 1915; CASSIA 2008)

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