Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.52 x h:
1.18 x d:
0.57) of very coarse grey limestone, much damaged.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w:
0.30 x h:
0.62).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1-4, 0.05; remainder, 0.04.
Date: CE 202-5 (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Road from the Circus to the Port,
Amphitheatre; found south of the amphitheatre, not far from the surviving mausoleum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
4: praet[orio]⟧ IRT, 1952; p̣ṛạẹṭ[orio] c̣(larissimo) ụ(iro)⟧ Gasperini, 1988
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect (all erased); Marcus Cornelius Bassus Servianus, eminent man (of equestrian status), deceased, ordered this to be erected, Cornelia Servianilla, splendid woman (of senatorial status), his daughter and heiress.
Commentary
C. Fuluius Plautianus: PIR F 0554, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/6413; erased after damnatio in 205.
M. Cornelius Bassus Seruianus: PIR C 1332, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4842
Cornelia Seruianilla: PIR C 1500, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4815.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1924, 70; Romanelli, 1927, 83; IRT, 1952, 524, whence IRT, 2009, 524, whence EDH 059412; Gasperini, 1988 , whence AE 1988.1099; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.15)