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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0593. Honours for M. Cornelius Capitolinus

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 1.01 ) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.27 x h: 0.76).
Letters: line 1, 0.065 ; line 2-3, 0.06; line 4, 0.055; line 5-6, 0.045; line 7-10, 0.04;. line 11-12, 0.045.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Cardo Maximus. Byzantine Gate; re-used and built into the upper courses.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

M(arco) Cornelio
Pap(iria tribu) Capitoli-
no flam(ini)
ex testam(ento)
5 C(aii) Aeli Rufini
generi eius
Ti(berius) et Q(uintus) Plautii
Lupus et Hate-
rianus Rufini
10fratres
statuendam
cur(auerunt)

Diplomatic

MCORNELIO
PAPCAPITOLI
NOFLAM
EXTESTAM
5CAELIRUFINI
GENERIEIUS
TIETQPLAUTII
LUPUSETHATE
RIANUSRUFINI
10FRATRES
STATUENDAM
CUR

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Marcus Cornelius Capitolinus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, flamen (priest), in accordance with the will of Caius Aelius Rufinus his son-in-law, Tiberius and Quintus Plautius Lupus and (scil. Plautius) Haterianus, brothers of Rufinus, undertook the erection.

Commentary

C. Aelius Rufinus: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/864

Ti. Plautius Lupus: PIR P 0469, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10501

Q. Plautius Haterianus: PIR P 0465, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10498

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1924, 70; IRT, 1952, 593, whence IRT, 2009, 593, whence EDH 059452; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.XIII.33)