572. Fragmentary honours

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.87 x d: 0.52) of coarse grey limestone, broken at the upper front edge. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.71, height incomplete).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.025.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Fort of Sidi Barcu. Found built into the wall of the fort. 
Original Location:
Perhaps originally from the circus. 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:84; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1931:2. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
5〚[·· ? ··]〛
[·· 9-10··] [pra]ẹf̣(ecto)
uehiculorum proc(uratori)
XX her(editatium) fratri pio
Fuluia Nepotilla so-
10ror cum Q(uinto) Ful-
uio Dida Bibuliano
marito et Q(uinto) Ful-
uio Dida Bibu[l]ia-
no et
15Q(uinto) Fuluio Seue[r]o
Iuniore
sacerdotio Caeni-
nense ornato
liberis posuit
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
〚[·· ? ··]〛
5〚[·· ? ··]〛
[·· 9-10··][····]··
VEHICVLORVMPROC
XXHERFRATRIPIO
FVLVIANEPOTILLASO
10RORCVMQFVL
VIODIDABIBVLIANO
MARITOETQFVL
VIODIDABIBV[··]IA
NOET
15QFVLVIOSEVE[··]O
IVNIORE
SACERDOTIOCAENI
NENSEORNATO
LIBERISPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="5" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" extentmax="10" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pra
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
ef
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
ecto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
uehiculorum
<expan>
<abbr>
proc
</abbr>
<ex>
uratori
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
<num value="20" >
XX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
her
</abbr>
<ex>
editatium
</ex>
</expan>
fratri
pio
<lb n="9" />
Fuluia
Nepotilla
so
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
ror
cum
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Ful
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
uio
Dida
Bibuliano
<lb n="12" />
marito
et
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Ful
<lb n="13" type="worddiv" />
uio
Dida
Bibu
<supplied reason="lost" >
l
</supplied>
ia
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
no
et
<lb n="15" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Fuluio
Seue
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
o
<lb n="16" />
Iuniore
<lb n="17" />
sacerdotio
Caeni
<lb n="18" type="worddiv" />
nense
ornato
<lb n="19" />
liberis
posuit
</ab>

11, Dida Bibuliano: Didabibuliano Or Didabibulianus; see also 291, ll. 4-5.

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] (five lines erased), prefect in charge of the Imperial Post, prefect in charge of the twentieth on inheritances, a dutiful brother; Fulvia Nepotilla his sister set this up together with her husband, Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus, and her sons, Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus and Quintus Fulvius Severus Junior, honoured with the priesthood of the Caeninenses (at Rome).

Commentary:

The man honoured heres, PIR (2) F, 522, is known only from this inscription. The deliberate erasure of the opening lines suggests that the inscription may refer to the early career of C. Fulvius Plautianus, PIR (2) F 554. or to a homonymous relation, in which case the erasure wil1 have folIowed his damnatio in 205.

Fuluia Nepotilla: PIR (2) F 562, known only from this inscription.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.16)

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