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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0642. Honours for Grania Iovina

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.66 x d: 0.42) of grey limestone, now in fragments;
Text: Inscribed on one face within moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.42).
Letters: Irregular Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.06; line 2,5, 0.05; line 3, 0.035; line 4, 0.025; line 6-7, 0.03.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Harbour on the East Mole, re-used in the sixth century defences
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

L(ucius) Gr[a]nius
Sollers
Paulianus
permissu ord[i]nis
5Graniae
Iouinae
filiae piissimae

Diplomatic

LGR[.]NIUS
SOLLERS
PAULIANUS
PERMISSUORD[.]NIS
5GRANIAE
IOUINAE
FILIAEPIISSIMAE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Lucius Granius Sollers Paulianus, with permission of the city council, to Grania Iovina, his most dutiful daughter.

Commentary

Line 1-3. line Granius Sollers Paulianus. Also in 708, line 1-3.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1930, 89, fig. 7; IRT, 1952, 642, whence IRT, 2009, 642, whence EDH 059495; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.17)