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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0713. Testamentary honours for Iulia Capitolina

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.74 x d: 0.48) of coarse, grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.25 x h: 0.56).
Letters: Rustic capitals av. 0.03-0.035.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus, in Regio V, insula 4, beside the immediately West of the Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Iuliae Capito-
linae ex
test(amento) Caecili
Amici Caeci-
5liani quon-
dam mariti
L(ucius) Caecilius Pusio
Caecilianus
filius commu-
10nis lib(ens) merito p(osuit)

Diplomatic

IULIAECAPITO
LINAEEX
TESTCAECILI
AMICICAECI
5LIANIQUON
DAMMARITI
LCAECILIUSPUSIO
CAECILIANUS
FILIUSCOMMU
10NISLIBMERITOP

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

ToJjulia Capitolina in accordance with the will of Caecilius Amicus Caecilianus, her late husband; Lucius Caecilius Pusio Caecilianus, their son, willing (scil. and) justly set this up.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 713, whence IRT, 2009, 713, whence EDH 059562; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.21)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 525)