641. Honours for Flavia Pia
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.68 x h: 1.39 x d: 0.65) of hard brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.59).
- Letters:
- Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.05-0.06.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside the Temple of Magna Mater.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Flauiae
Piae
<lb
n="2"
/>
Flauia
Pro
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
cla
soror
pi
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
issima
permis
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
su
ordinis
<lb
n="6"
/>
posuit
</ab>
Translation:
To Flavia Pia; Flavia Procla. a most dutiful sister, set this up with permission of the city council.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.24)
-
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 911)
-
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 6 to validate this file.)