240. Testamentary benefaction

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.87 x d: 0.52) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within moulded panel (die, w: 0.27 x h: 0.64). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: ll. 1-4, 0.05; ll. 5-6, 0.045-0.05.  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Tripoli city. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now in front of Sabratha Museum 
Bibliography:
Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VII:132 ff., fig. 1; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1948:5. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
L(ucius) Aemilius
Celsianus r(ei) p(ublicae)
statuas X test(amento)
leg(auit)
5 P(ublius) Seruilius Pudens
curauit
LAEMILIVS
CELSIANVSRP
STATVASXTEST
LEG
5PSERVILIVSPVDENS
CVRAVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Aemilius
<lb n="2" />
Celsianus
<expan>
<abbr>
r
</abbr>
<ex>
ei
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ublicae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
statuas
<num value="10" >
X
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
test
</abbr>
<ex>
amento
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
auit
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublius
</ex>
</expan>
Seruilius
Pudens
<lb n="6" />
curauit
</ab>

Translation:

Lucius Aemilius Celsianus bequeathed in his will ten statues to the city. Publius Servilius Pudens executed (the bequest).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 855 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 855 Leica)

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