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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0245. votive inscriptions by C. Calpurnius Candidus

Description: Part of the mosaic pavement of a small shrine.
Text: Two tabellae ansatae in mosaic: a) die, w: 1.25 x h: 0.28; b) die, w: 1.33 x h: 0.38.
Letters: a) lettering, 0.12. b) size of lettering not recorded.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: Oea: Near Fort Trigh Tarhuna: part of the pavement of a small shrine found in 1912 (12 km. ESE of Tripoli, map ref. L 615655) and described by Aurigemma.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1912)

Interpretive

a
C(aius) Calpurnius
[Can]didus u(otum) s(oluit)
b
[C(aius) Ca]lpurnius
Candidus u(oto) s(oluto)
d(edit) d(edicauit)

Diplomatic

a
CCALPURNIUS
[...]DIDUSUS
b
[....]LPURNIUS
CANDIDUSUS
DD

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a): Caius Calpurnius Candidus paid his vow.

(b): Caius Calpurnius Candidus, having paid his vow gave and dedicated this.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1924, 54 ff, figs. 4, 6, 7; IRT, 1952, 245, whence IRT, 2009, 245, whence EDH 059215.

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