521. Building inscription of L. Caninius Gallus

Description:
Podium of the West Tribunal, in situ in the Theatre, the inscribed part of which consists of seven blocks (together, w: 6.45 x h: 1.28 x d: 2.70) of grey limestone. In the centre there are two cornucopiae between wreaths, carved in relief.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.13.  
Date:
1.B.C. - 10. A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VI:92 ff., figs. 1-3; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1938:2; Caputo, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 II:196 ff., figs. 13-14. 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) Caninius L(uci) f(ilius) Gallus XVuir sacris fac(iundis)
co(n)s(ul) proco(n)s(ul) patron(us) dedic(auit)
LCANINIVSLFGALLVSXVVIRSACRISFAC
COSPROCOSPATRONDEDIC
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Caninius
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Gallus
<num value="15" >
XV
</num>
uir
sacris
<expan>
<abbr>
fac
</abbr>
<ex>
iundis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
patron
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
dedic
</abbr>
<ex>
auit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Lucius Caninius Gallus, son of Lucius, member of the committee of fifteen for sacred activities, consul, proconsul, patron, dedicated (this)

Commentary:

l. 1. Gallus was cos. suff. 2 B.C. = PIR (2) C 390; not previously known to have been procos. Africae.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1412 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1412 Leica)

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