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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0641. Honours for Flavia Pia

Description: Moulded base (w: 0.68 x h: 1.39 x d: 0.65) of hard brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.59).
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.05-0.06.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Flauiae Piae
Flauia Pro-
cla soror pi-
issima permis-
5su ordinis
posuit

Diplomatic

FLAUIAEPIAE
FLAUIAPRO
CLASORORPI
ISSIMAPERMIS
5SUORDINIS
POSUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Flavia Pia; Flavia Procla. a most dutiful sister, set this up with permission of the city council.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 641, whence IRT, 2009, 641, whence EDH 059494; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.24)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 911)

   Fig. 3. View: Tantillo (2003)

   Fig. 4. Face: Tantillo (2006)