520. ?Building inscription of Cn. Calpurnius Piso
- Description:
- Inscription (w: 6.15 x h: 0.92), formerly of bronze letters.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Capitals, bronze set in lead: 0.26-0.30.
- Date:
- Between 5 B.C and 2 A.D. (prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. Let into the grey limestone paving at the North angle of the Forum, immediately in front of the North Temple.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VIII:20, fig. 11; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:9. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aeus
</ex>
Calpurnius
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aei
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilius
</ex>
Piso
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
pontufex
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
Translation:
Cnaeus Calpurnius Piso, son of Cnaeus, consul, pontifex (priest), proconsul.
Commentary:
l. 1. Calpurnius Piso was cos. ord. 7 B.C. = PIR (2) C 287.
l. 2. Proconsul between 5 B.C. and A.D. 2.
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