629. Fragmentary honours

Description:
Rectangular marble base (w: 0.95 x h: 1.55 x d: 0.95). 
Text:
inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.57) from which the inscribed surface has been carefully removed. Uniform with 628, 630.  
Letters:
ll. 1-2, 0.06; remainder, 0.05. 
Date:
Second century A.D. ( lettering of 630) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, to the right of the door into the Tepidarium. 
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) 
〚C(aio) Aemilio
Pap(iria tribu) [[···]]ae
C(aii) Aemili Rufini filio
Aemilia Victrix
5mater f(ilio) pi[is]s[i]ṃo per-
missu splendidis-
simi ordinis sua
pecunia posuit〛
〚CAEMILIO
PAP[·]AE
CAEMILIRVFINIFILIO
AEMILIAVICTRIX
5MATERFPI[···]S[··]·OPER
MISSVSPLENDIDIS
SIMIORDINISSVA
PECVNIAPOSVIT〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Aemilio
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</supplied>
ae
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aii
</ex>
</expan>
Aemili
Rufini
filio
<lb n="4" />
Aemilia
Victrix
<lb n="5" />
mater
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
pi
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
o
per
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
missu
splendidis
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
simi
ordinis
sua
<lb n="8" />
pecunia
posuit
</del>
</ab>

Translation:

(Whole text erased). To Caius Aemilius [·· ? ··], son of Caius Aemilius Rufinus; Aemilia Victrix his mother set this up at her own expense to a most dutiful son, with permission of the most splendid city council.

Commentary:

l. 3. C. Aemilius Rufinus: also in 630, l. 3.

l.4. Aemilia Victrix: also in 628, 1. 4; 630, l. 4.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1083)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1083)

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