432. Dedication to Fulvia Plautilla

Description:
Moulded base (width by measurable height, w: 0.50 x h: 0.70) of limestone.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, width by by measurable height: w: 0.45 x h: 0.50). 
Letters:
0.06.  
Date:
A.D. 201/202 (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: South of the Theatre. Described in 1811; half buried in the sand when seen by Bartoccini. No longer visible. Not seen. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22670 a ; H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 8918; De Laet, Portorium, Bruges, 1949, 256. 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:
Bartoccini MS notes (description and text), and previous publications. 
[〚Fuluiae Plau-
tillae Aug(ustae)〛]
Antonini Aug(usti)
Pii sponsae
5dedicante Fl(auio) Celere proc(uratore)
lib(erti) et familia splendidis-
simi uectig(alis) IIII p(ublicorum) A(fricae)
[·············]
ANTONINIAVG
PIISPONSAE
5DEDICANTEFLCELEREPROC
LIBETFAMILIASPLENDIDIS
SIMIVECTIGIIIIPA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<del>
Fuluiae
Plau
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
tillae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
Antonini
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Pii
sponsae
<lb n="5" />
dedicante
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
Celere
<expan>
<abbr>
proc
</abbr>
<ex>
uratore
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
erti
</ex>
</expan>
et
familia
splendidis
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
simi
<expan>
<abbr>
uectig
</abbr>
<ex>
alis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ublicorum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
A
</abbr>
<ex>
fricae
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Fulvia Plautilla Augusta (all erased) promised bride of Antoninus Augustus Pius; Flavius Celer, equestrian imperial agent, dedicated (this); the freedmen and family (of slaves) in the service of the splendid tax of the four public dues of Africa gave (it)

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Fuluia Plautilla Augusta. PIR(2) F 564; married to Caracalla in 202. Erased after the damnatio of Fulvius Plautianus in 205.

l. 4. Pius from 201.

l. 7. See also 315a.

Photographs:
none.

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