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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0675. Honours for Caecina Apollinaris

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.56 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.59) of limestone, with moulded panels on three sides.
Text: Inscribed on the front (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.58).
Letters: First to second centuries CE lettering: line 1, 0.065; line 2, 0.041; line 3, 0.047; line 4, 0.040; line 5-8, 0.036.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Ras Si Jùsef, Found in 1912, on the site of a temporary redoubt on one of the hills on the East bank of Wadi Lebdah. Seen by Aurigemma in 1914, but since lost.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1914)

Interpretive

[---] Caecinae C(aii) f(ilio)
Pap(iria tribu) Apollinari
C(aius) Caecina Artemas
et Caecinia Glyce Pusinna
5et Caecinia Pusinna Arteṃạẹ
filia heredes optimo et
indulgentissimo patro-
no faciendum curaueṛ(unt)

Diplomatic

[---]CAECINAECF
PAPAPOLLINARI
CCAECINAARTEMAS
ETCAECINIAGLYCEPUSINNA
5ETCAECINIAPUSINNAARTE...
FILIAHEREDESOPTIMOET
INDULGENTISSIMOPATRO
NOFACIENDUMCURAUE.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] Caecina Apollinaris, son of Caius, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria; Caius Caecina Artemas and Caecina Glyce Pusinna and Caecina Pusinna daughter of Artemas, his heirs, had (scil. this) made for a very good and most indulgent patron.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1930, 87; IRT, 1952, 675, whence IRT, 2009, 675, whence EDH 059527

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