532. Honours for Q. Granius Caelestinus
- Description:
- Two curved blocks (width, across the chord, w: 0.75 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.42) of grey limestone, presumably part of a niche.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the inner face.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinto
</ex>
Granio
Caelestino
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
larissimo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iro
</ex>
quaestor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
senatori
splendidissimo
et
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinto
</ex>
Gran
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
io
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Nummius
Gaetulicus
et
Tuticius
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
M
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
ex
permissu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ordinis
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To Quintus Granius Caelestinus, of senatorial status, quaestor, [·· ? ··], a most splendid senator and Quintus Granius [·· ? ··] Nummius Gaetulicus and Tuticius M[·· ? ··] with the permission [of the city council ·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 1. Q. Granius Caelestinus. For a probable descendant of this man see Q. Attius Granius Caelestinus v.c. in CIL VI, 1143, ll. 8-10.
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