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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0644. Honours for M. Iunius Caecilianus

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.97 x d: 0.50) of coarse brown limestone. The base was then turned 90 degrees to carve 284 on the right face.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.26 x h: 0.82).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

M(arco) Iunio
Caeciliano
Caecilia
Regina
5mater f(ilio)
piissimo
ex decret(o)
ord(inis) p(osuit)

Diplomatic

MIUNIO
CAECILIANO
CAECILIA
REGINA
5MATERF
PIISSIMO
EXDECRET
ORDP

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Marcus Junius Caecilianus; Caecilia Regina, his mother, set (scil. this) up to a most dutiful son in accordance with a decree of the city council.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 644, whence IRT, 2009, 644, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059497; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 326)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)