Authorisation by Fulvius PlautianusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
a) Block of black marble, broken in two pieces (together, 2.070.300.60).
b) Fragment of a similar block (0.700.300.60).
Description of Text
Inscribed in irregular characters on one roughly-dressed face.
Description of Letters
Roughly incised capitals: 0.04.
Date
A.D. 202-205
(prosopography)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Colonnaded Street, outside the Forum Severianum.
a For dispatch to the most splendid colony of Leptis Magna on the order of Fulvius Plautianus, of senatorial status, praetorian prefect and relation of our lords.
b For dispatch to the most splendid colony of Leptis Magna on the order of Fulvius Plautianus, of senatorial status, praetorian prefect and relation of our lords.
Commentary
Worked fragments of the same marble have been found inside the Forum Severianum. The marble was evidently shipped in bulk, to be worked locally, and the texts are in effect consignment notes from the quarries.
a) l. 2. PIR (2) F 554; also in 521. The present text, which was not displayed monumentally, has escaped erasure after the damnatio of Plautianus in 205.
a) l. 3. praefectus praetorius ac necessarius from 202, when Plautianus' daughter married Caracalla.