WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0240. Testamentary benefaction

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.87 x d: 0.52) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within moulded panel (die, w: 0.27 x h: 0.64).
Letters: Rustic capitals: lines 1-4, 0.05; lines 5-6, 0.045-0.05.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Tripoli: Oea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Now in front of Sabratha Museum

Interpretive

L(ucius) Aemilius
Celsianus r(ei) p(ublicae)
statuas X test(amento)
( vac. ) leg(auit) ( vac. )
5 P(ublius) Seruilius Pudens
( vac. ) curauit ( vac. )

Diplomatic

LAEMILIUS
CELSIANUSRP
STATUASXTEST
      LEG      
5PSERUILIUSPUDENS
      CURAUIT      

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Lucius Aemilius Celsianus bequeathed in his will ten statues to the city. Publius Servilius Pudens executed (scil. the bequest).

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940b, 132 ff., fig. 1, whence AE, 1948.5; IRT, 1952, 240, whence IRT, 2009, 240, whence EDH 019671; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 855 Leica)