579. Honours for Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.58 x h: 1.81 x d: 0.61), tall and unusually slender, of brown limestone, with rudimentary acroteria.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.56).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.035.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the North 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)
Clementillae Aemili
Arriani Caeciliani duo-
uiralici pontif(icis) filiae
5L(ucius) Volusius Gallus eq(ues) R(omanus)
pontifex duoviralis
fl(amen) p(er)p(etuus) ob insignem adfec-
tionis castitatem matri
Volusiorum Appianillae
10Bassi et Cerealis fil(iorum) suo-
rum permissu s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) posuit
10, FILL:
Translation:
To Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, daughter of Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, ex-duumvir and pontifex (priest); Lucius Volusius Gallus, Roman knight, pontifex (priest), ex-duumvir, perpetual flamen (priest), set this up on account of the outstanding morality of her disposition, mother of the Volusii Appianilla, Bassus and Cerialis, her children, with permission of the most splendid city-council.
Commentary:
l.10: Cerealis: For other members of this family see 543, ll.1,2; 544, 1.1; also CIL VI, 1554.
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