706. Fragment
- Description:
- Upper part of a rectangular marble base (w: 0.55 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.57) with moulded panels on all four sides. Once inscribed on front and back, the inscription on the back erased; on the left side a patera, on the right a jug in relief.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.24).
- Letters:
- Capitals with some Rustic forms: ll. 1-2, 0.06; ll. 3-4, 0.04.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street: in the monumental exedra at the head of the 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinto
</ex>
Furio
Cereali
<lb
n="2"
/>
socero
Carmini
Sa
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
turnini
qui
statuas
<num
value="16"
>
XVI
</num>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="sestertius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
sestertios
</ex>
<num
value="5000"
>
</num>
testa
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
mento
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To Quintus Furius Cerealis, father-in-law of Carminius Saturninus, who [had] sixteen statues [made at a cost of ?] sesterces by his will [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1625 Leica)
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