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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1008. Honours for C. Fulvius Plautianus

Description: Limestone statue base w: 0.50 x h: 0.93 x d: 0.50
Text: Inscribed on the face, within a moulded panel, w: 0.29 x h: 0.65; lines end with hederae
Letters: Lines 1-2, 0.045; lines 3 ff, 0.03; RUM in ligature in line 7.

Date: CE 202-5 (prosopography)

Findspot: Found in 1964. Lepcis Magna: reused in later fortifications beside the coast road, near the Wadi Lebdah
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

⟦C(aio) Fulvio ((leaf))
Plautiano ((leaf))
p̣ṛ[a]ef̣(ecto) p̣ṛạẹṭ(orio) ((leaf))
c̣(larissimo) ụ(iro) c̣ọ[miti] ẹṭ ((leaf))
5ṇẹc̣ẹṣṣạṛịọ⟧ ((stop)) domi-
norum nostro-
rum ((stop)) Imp( vac. 1)erato-
rum ((stop)) Auggg(ustorum) ((stop))
M(arcus) ((stop)) Calpurnius ((stop)) Geta ((leaf))
10( vac. ) Attianus et ((leaf)) ( vac. )
M(arcus) ((stop)) Calpurnius Attia-
nus ((stop)) f(ilius) ((stop)) numini deuo-
tissimi ((stop)) posuer(unt)

Diplomatic

⟦CFULVIO ❦
PLAUTIANO ❦
..[.]E...... ❦
....[....].. ❦
5..........⟧ • DOMI
NORUMNOSTRO
RUM • IMP  ERATO
RUM • AUGGG •
M • CALPURNIUS • GETA ❦
10      ATTIANUSET ❦       
M • CALPURNIUSATTIA
NUS • F • NUMINIDEUO
TISSIMI • POSUER

4: co[nsocero] Di Vita, 1966; co[miti] Corbier, 1974; the leaves at the ends of the lines explain the spacing. Gasperini, 1988

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

For Caius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect, of clarissimus rank, companion (comes) and confidant of our lords the emperors, Augusti: Marcus Calpurnius Geta Attianus aand his son, Marcus Calpurnius Attianus, devoted to his divine spirit, set this up.

Commentary

C. Fulvius Plautianus: PIR F 0554, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/6413

Bibliography: Described Di Vita, 1965 , and published Di Vita, 1966 83-84, whence AE 1967.537; ; revised Corbier, 1974 , whence AE 1973.572, AE 1976.696; Gasperini, 1988 , whence AE 1988.1099, EDH 011639

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