524. Honours for C. Fulvius Plautianus

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 1.18 x d: 0.57) of very coarse grey limestone, much damaged.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w: 0.30 x h: 0.62).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: ll. 1-4, 0.05; remainder, 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 202-5 (Marriage of Caracalla and date of damnatio.)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Amphitheatre; found south of the amphitheatre, not far from the surviving mausoleum 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 II:70; Romanelli, Bullettino della Commissione archeologica di Roma, LV:83. 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) 
〚C(aio) Fuluio
Pla[ut]iano
praefe[ct]o
praet[orio]〛
5M(arcus) Cornelius
Bassus Seruianus
e(gregiae) m(emoriae) u(ir) fieri iussit
Cornelia Seruianil-
la c(larissima) f(emina) filia et
10heres posuit
〚CFVLVIO
PLA[···]IANO
PRAEFE[···]O
PRAET[·····]〛
5MCORNELIVS
BASSVSSERVIANVS
EMVFIERIIVSSIT
CORNELIASERVIANIL
LACFFILIAET
10HERESPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Fuluio
<lb n="2" />
Pla
<supplied reason="lost" >
ut
</supplied>
iano
<lb n="3" />
praefe
<supplied reason="lost" >
ct
</supplied>
o
<lb n="4" />
praet
<supplied reason="lost" >
orio
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Cornelius
<lb n="6" />
Bassus
Seruianus
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
<ex>
gregiae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ir
</ex>
</expan>
fieri
iussit
<lb n="8" />
Cornelia
Seruianil
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
la
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissima
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
emina
</ex>
</expan>
filia
et
<lb n="10" />
heres
posuit
</ab>

Translation:

To Caius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect (all erased); Marcus Cornelius Bassus Servianus, eminent man (of equestrian status), deceased, ordered this to be erected, Cornelia Servianilla, splendid woman (of senatorial status), his daughter and heiress.

Commentary:

ll. 1-4. C. Fuluius Plautianus. PIR (2) F 554; also in 530, ll. 2-3, and perhaps 572, see n. 1; erased after damnatio in 205.

ll. 5-6. M. Cornelius Bassus Seruianus. PIR (2) C 1332. known only from this inscription; see now also 443.

ll. 8-9. Cornelia Seruianila. PIR (2)C 1500, known only from this inscription; see now also 443.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.15)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.15)

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