657. Posthumous honours for Philippus

Description:
Prism-shaped stele (w: 0.22 x h: 0.63 x d: 0.35) of grey-brown limestone, broken above and at the left-hand side. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.13 x h: 0.37; width incomplete). 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.035. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Gasr Geladieh, in the mausoleum South of the city. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), 10.1.34 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) 
[Ph]il(i)ppus libra-
[r]ius notarius
[rat]iocinator n(u)m-
[er]arius omni-
5[bus] his consuṃ-
[p]tus uixit an-
[nos] XXVII sine
[ulla m]acula
[·· ? ··] pater fi-
10[lio piiss]imo fecit
[···]ILPPVSLIBRA
[··]IVSNOTARIVS
[····]IOCINATORNM
[···]ARIVSOMNI
5[····]HISCONSV·
[··]TVSVIXITAN
[····]XXVIISINE
[·······]ACVLA
[·· ? ··]PATERFI
10[··········]IMOFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ph
</supplied>
il
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
ppus
</abbr>
</expan>
libra
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
ius
notarius
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
rat
</supplied>
iocinator
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
m
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
er
</supplied>
arius
</abbr>
</expan>
omni
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
bus
</supplied>
his
consu
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
tus
uixit
an
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
nos
</supplied>
<num value="27" >
XXVII
</num>
sine
<lb n="8" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ulla
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
acula
<lb n="9" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
pater
fi
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
lio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
piiss
</supplied>
imo
fecit
</ab>

3, n(u)m: As cut, the V resembles an I.

Translation:

Philippus, secretary, shorthand writer, accountant, arithmetician; exhausted by all these (functions), he lived for twenty-seven years without any fault [·· ? ··], his father had this made for a most dutiful son.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSr 48.XV.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSr 48.XV.18)

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