636. Testamentary honours for Q. Caecilius Severus Annianus

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.45; height incomplete) of yellow-brown limestone. The moulding on the upper edge is lost.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.70).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals, diminishing from 0.09 to 0.03. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V, ins. 14/15, beside street. 
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) 
Q(uinto) Caeci[l]io
Seuero
Anniano
Clodii Agrippa
5et Rufinus
heredes t[e]st(amento)
patris permissu
splend(id)issimi ord(inis)
QCAECI[··]IO
SEVERO
ANNIANO
CLODIIAGRIPPA
5ETRVFINVS
HEREDEST[··]ST
PATRISPERMISSV
SPLENDISSIMIORD
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<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Caeci
<supplied reason="lost" >
l
</supplied>
io
<lb n="2" />
Seuero
<lb n="3" />
Anniano
<lb n="4" />
Clodii
Agrippa
<lb n="5" />
et
Rufinus
<lb n="6" />
heredes
<expan>
<abbr>
t
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
st
</abbr>
<ex>
amento
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
patris
permissu
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
splend
</abbr>
<ex>
id
</ex>
<abbr>
issimi
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ord
</abbr>
<ex>
inis
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Quintus Caecilius Severus Annianus; the Clodii Agrippa and Rufinus, the heirs, in accordance with the will of their father ( erected this), with permission of the most splendid city council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.26)

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