532. Honours for Q. Granius Caelestinus

Description:
Two curved blocks (width, across the chord, w: 0.75 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.42) of grey limestone, presumably part of a niche.  
Text:
Inscribed on the inner face.  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, 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) 
Q(uinto) Granio Caelestino c(larissimo) u(iro) quaestor[i ·· ? ··]
senatori splendidissimo et Q(uinto) Gran[io ·· ? ··]
Nummius Gaetulicus et Tuticius Ṃ [·· ? ··]
ex permissu [ordinis ·· ? ··]
QGRANIOCAELESTINOCVQVAESTOR[···· ? ··]
SENATORISPLENDIDISSIMOETQGRAN[····· ? ··]
NVMMIVSGAETVLICVSETTVTICIVS·[·· ? ··]
EXPERMISSV[·········· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Granio
Caelestino
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
quaestor
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
senatori
splendidissimo
et
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Gran
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
Nummius
Gaetulicus
et
Tuticius
<unclear reason="damage" >
M
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
ex
permissu
<supplied reason="lost" >
ordinis
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To Quintus Granius Caelestinus, of senatorial status, quaestor, [·· ? ··], a most splendid senator and Quintus Granius [·· ? ··] Nummius Gaetulicus and Tuticius M[·· ? ··] with the permission [of the city council ·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 1. Q. Granius Caelestinus. For a probable descendant of this man see Q. Attius Granius Caelestinus v.c. in CIL VI, 1143, ll. 8-10.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 79)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 79)

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