Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.51 x h:
0.87 x d:
0.52) of coarse grey limestone, broken at the upper front edge.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.28 x h:
0.71, height incomplete).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.025.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Fort of Sidi Barcu. Found built into the wall of the fort.
Original location: Perhaps originally from the circus.
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
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5⟦[---]⟧
[c. 9 - 10 pra]ẹf̣(ecto)
uehiculorum proc(uratori)
XX her(editatium) fratri pio
Fuluia Nepotilla so-
10ror cum Q(uinto) Ful-
uio Dida Bibuliano
marito et Q(uinto) Ful-
uio Dida Bibu[l]ia-
no et
15Q(uinto) Fuluio Seue[r]o
Iuniore
sacerdotio Caeni-
nense ornato
liberis posuit
Diplomatic
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5⟦[---]⟧
[c. 9 - 10...]..
UEHICULORUMPROC
XXHERFRATRIPIO
FULUIANEPOTILLASO
10RORCUMQFUL
UIODIDABIBULIANO
MARITOETQFUL
UIODIDABIBU[.]IA
NOET
15QFULUIOSEUE[.]O
IUNIORE
SACERDOTIOCAENI
NENSEORNATO
LIBERISPOSUIT
11: Dida Bibuliano : Didabibuliano Or Didabibulianus; see also 291, line 4-5.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [---] (five lines erased), prefect in charge of the Imperial Post, prefect in charge of the twentieth on inheritances, a dutiful brother; Fulvia Nepotilla
his sister set this up together with her husband, Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus, and her sons, Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus
and Quintus Fulvius Severus Junior, honoured with the priesthood of the Caeninenses (at Rome).
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1930, 84 , whence AE 1931.2; IRT, 1952, 572, whence IRT, 2009, 572, whence EDH 025245; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.16)
