579. Honours for Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.58 x h: 1.81 x d: 0.61), tall and unusually slender, of brown limestone, with rudimentary acroteria.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.56).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.035. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the North East Portico.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
Aemiliae Lychnidi
Clementillae Aemili
Arriani Caeciliani duo-
uiralici pontif(icis) filiae
5L(ucius) Volusius Gallus eq(ues) R(omanus)
pontifex duoviralis
fl(amen) p(er)p(etuus) ob insignem adfec-
tionis castitatem matri
Volusiorum Appianillae
10Bassi et Cerealis fil(iorum) suo-
rum permissu s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis) posuit
AEMILIAELYCHNIDI
CLEMENTILLAEAEMILI
ARRIANICAECILIANIDVO
VIRALICIPONTIFFILIAE
5LVOLVSIVSGALLVSEQR
PONTIFEXDVOVIRALIS
FLPPOBINSIGNEMADFEC
TIONISCASTITATEMMATRI
VOLVSIORVMAPPIANILLAE
10BASSIETCEREALISFILLSVO
RVMPERMISSVSOPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Aemiliae
Lychnidi
<lb n="2" />
Clementillae
Aemili
<lb n="3" />
Arriani
Caeciliani
duo
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
uiralici
<expan>
<abbr>
pontif
</abbr>
<ex>
icis
</ex>
</expan>
filiae
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Volusius
Gallus
<expan>
<abbr>
eq
</abbr>
<ex>
ues
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
R
</abbr>
<ex>
omanus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
pontifex
duoviralis
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
fl
</abbr>
<ex>
amen
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
er
</ex>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
etuus
</ex>
</expan>
ob
insignem
adfec
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
tionis
castitatem
matri
<lb n="9" />
Volusiorum
Appianillae
<lb n="10" />
Bassi
et
Cerealis
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
<am>
l
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
iorum
</ex>
</expan>
suo
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
rum
permissu
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
posuit
</ab>

10, FILL:

Translation:

To Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, daughter of Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, ex-duumvir and pontifex (priest); Lucius Volusius Gallus, Roman knight, pontifex (priest), ex-duumvir, perpetual flamen (priest), set this up on account of the outstanding morality of her disposition, mother of the Volusii Appianilla, Bassus and Cerialis, her children, with permission of the most splendid city-council.

Commentary:

l.10: Cerealis: For other members of this family see 543, ll.1,2; 544, 1.1; also CIL VI, 1554.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1605 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1605 Leica)

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