634. Testamentary honours for Aurellia Sextilla
- Description:
- Rectangular marble base (w: 0.53 x h: 0.87 x d: 0.52) with moulded panels on three faces; front, much damaged.
- Text:
- Inscribed (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.70).
- Letters:
- Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.04.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the South East Portico of the Curia. Uniform with 632.
- 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"
/>
Aurelliae
Se
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
x
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
tillae
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uintus
</ex>
Plautius
Ha
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
terianu
</supplied>
s
ex
tes
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
tament
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
beri
</ex>
Plau
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
ti
Lupi
frat
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ris
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
/>
sui
uxor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
perm
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
is
</supplied>
<lb
n="9"
type="worddiv"
/>
su
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
plendi
<lb
n="10"
type="worddiv"
/>
dissimi
or
<lb
n="11"
type="worddiv"
/>
dini
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
po
<lb
n="12"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
suit
</supplied>
Translation:
To Aurellia Sextilla. Quintus Plautius Haterianus erected (this) in accordance with the will of Tiberius Plautius Lupus, his brother, to [?his] wife; with permission of the most splendid city council.
Commentary:
l. 6. Ti(berius) Plautius Lupus. See also 632, n. 1.
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