IRT565 (Q629)

[In honour] of Flavius Nepotianus. To Flavius Nepotianus excellent man (of equestrian status), count and governor of the province of Tripolitania, in justice and integrity an outstanding man, in good guidance and benevolence exceptional, concerned for benevolence and honourable feeling and all public duties, very knowledgeable also in military science, experienced in arms and councils of war; because he provided with benevolence many benefits to councils and to all inhabitants of the province by dispensing justice with good faith; because he wore down the arrogance of the barbarians by the exercise of military skill; because he provided permanent defense and protection of the frontier even for the future times and secure against every hostile invader; because he adorned the walls of the cities by renewal of works or new building; the council of the city of Lepcis Magna, with the people, put up a marble statue on account of these merits, with decrees and votes [all] in accord.