Description: Moulded base (w:
0.58 x h:
1.81 x d:
0.61), tall and unusually slender, of brown limestone, with rudimentary acroteria.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.36 x h:
0.56).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.035.
Date: Third quarter of the third century CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market, in the North East Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Aemiliae Lychnidi
Clementillae Aemili
Arriani Caeciliani duo-
uiralici pontif(icis) filiae
5L(ucius) Uolusius Gallus eq(ues) R(omanus)
pontifex duouiralis
fl(amen) p(er)p(etuus) ob insignem adfec-
tionis castitatem matri
Uolusiorum Appianillae
10Bassi et Cerealis fill(iorum) suo-
rum permissu s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) posuit
Diplomatic
AEMILIAELYCHNIDI
CLEMENTILLAEAEMILI
ARRIANICAECILIANIDUO
UIRALICIPONTIFFILIAE
5LUOLUSIUSGALLUSEQR
PONTIFEXDUOUIRALIS
FLPPOBINSIGNEMADFEC
TIONISCASTITATEMMATRI
UOLUSIORUMAPPIANILLAE
10BASSIETCEREALISFILLSUO
RUMPERMISSUSOPOSUIT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, daughter of Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, ex-duumvir and pontifex (priest); Lucius Volusius Gallus, Roman knight, pontifex (priest), ex-duumvir, perpetual flamen (priest), set this up on account of the outstanding morality of her disposition, mother of the Volusii Appianilla, Bassus and Cerialis,
her children, with permission of the most splendid city-council.
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Ad Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, figlia di Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, ex duoviro, pontefice, Lucius Volusius Gallus, cavaliere
romano, pontefice, ex duoviro, flamine perpetuo, per la di lei insigne castità negli affetti, madre dei Volusi Appianilla,
Bassus e Cerealis, suoi figli, per permesso dello splendidissimo ordine, pose.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, daughter of Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, former duovir, pontifex. L(ucius) Volusius Gallus,
Roman knight, former duovir, pontifex, perpetual flamen, on account of the remarkable chasteness of her disposition, to the
mother of the Volusii, Appianilla, Bassus and Cerealis, his children, set this up by permission of the most splendid council
(ordo).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 579, whence IRT, 2009, 579; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 48, whence LSA, 2012, 2194 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059440; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1605 Leica)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 3. Front face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 4. Front and right faces: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. Left and front faces: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 6. Back: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 7. Top: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050953)
