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Capitals: 0.065- 0.05. Four lines of Neo- Punic follow the Latin text. 1

Aurigemma, Afr. Ital VIII (1940) 35 ff., figs. 20, 21 and 22; L'Ann. Ep. 1948, 17.

Photos: Sopr. CLM 728; DLM 101 Lastre.

Ti(berio) Claudio

Drusi f(ilio) Cae

sari Aug(usto) Ger

manico pon

5 [tif(ici)] max(imo) trib(unicia)

potest(ate) XIII ²

imp(eratori) XVII co(n)s(uli)

V cens(ori) p(atri) p(atriae)

M(arcus) Pompeius Silua

10 nus ³ co(n)s(ul) XVuir s(acris) f(aciundis)

proco(n)s(ul) patron(us)

dedicauit

Q(uinto) Cassio Grato pr(aetore) proco(n)s(ule) Cretae et

15 Cyrena[ru]m leg(ato)

pro pr(aetore) Africae

C(aius) Annonis f(ilius) ⁴ nomi

ne [C(ai)] Annonis f(ilii) n(epotis)

Sui ⁴ columnas cum

20 superficie et forum ⁵

d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) d(edit) Balitho Annonis

Macri f (ilius) Commodus ⁴ testamento adopta

25 tus f(aciendum) c(urauit)

1 Neo- Punic 31. the provisional translation of the text given by Levi Della Vida in << Afr.Ital.>> VIII (1940) 42 is superseded by a definitive discussion and translation, published by the same author in << Rend. Acc. Line. >> IV (1949) 400-404. The latter. rendered literally, reads: << G. `y by ben Hanno, in the name of G`y his grandson by (his son) M'qr, covered (paid for ?. presented ?) the columns and the space and paved the forum at his own expense as the work required. Ba'alyaton Q.m.d`, who entered in as son by M`qr through the writing of the Affairs of the family (i.e. through the will) of G'y ben Hanno, had this work executed and brought it to completion >>.

. 2 25 Jan. 53 - 24 Jan. 54.

3 PIR¹P 495, cos. suff.. 45.

4 See also in 615., ll. 2- 3, 7 and note 1.

5 See note 1 above and 615, II. 3- 5.