Ein bislang übersehener jambischer Senar aus Mauretania Tingitana

Abstract

AE 1986, 734 = IAM-S 879 (first half of the III century AD; Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana) was inscribed on the front of an altar dedicated to the god AVLISVA by the libertus and cobbler Valerius Victor. Although the piece has never been regarded as a carmen epigraphicum, the article shows that its first two lines contain a correct iambic senarius with middle caesura, granting either a vocalic or a consonant value to the first, the second or both the V of the name of AVLISVA.