Description of Monument
Rectangular base
(0.50
0.89
0.51) of white marble.
a) Front face, surface badly damaged (die not measurable):
1. Fragment from the top, towards the right-hand edge
2. Fragment, ll. 20-22 approx.
3. Bottom right-hand corner.
b) Left-hand face
c) Right-hand face
Translation
a. 1To flamen priest, pontifex priest the whole city council ? statues on account of his munificence ?into words nus in accordance with the will set this up at his own expense a. 2 among others feminine things a. 3 l.2 ? by which he spoke his opinion in good faith.
b Since all members of the city council are demanding that a two-horse chariot be set up at public expense to Plautius Lupus, one of the best men of our city council, Lucius Cassius Longinus, duovir designate, proposed that action should be taken in this matter and the decision of the city councillors on the actions to be taken in this matter is: Since Plautius Lupus, one of the best men of our city council, willingly undertook the flaminate priesthood which was offered to him by universal agreement, and gave very splendid games, and, most remarkably, also served with magnificent liberality in the office of the duumvirate in accordance with the splendid tradition of his family and the status of our colony, and with lavish disposition again gave most splendid games; moreover, not content with this generosity, he ornamented the bathhouse cella with Numidian marbles and mosaic work; subsequently on every occasion he was unusually meritorious, and most recently, when he had been elected as a curator to give a public show in accordance with the bequest of Junius Afer, deceased, splendid man of senatorial status, he was unsparing of his care and omitted no effort, and having observed the wishes of the honorable council, ensured that the games given were of the most splendid; and since behaviours of this kind ought to be rewarded so that others too could be stimulated to give the same pleasure we decided that a two-horse chariot shall be erected to Plautius Lupius, one of the best men of our city council at a place which he chooses.
c Given that everyone of the city councillors is calling for a two-horse chariot appropriate to him to be set up at public expense in honour of Plautius Lupus, duumvir last year, on account of his outstanding integrity and modesty and also because of his munificence, Acilius Pompeianus, duumvir, made the proposal:Ssince Plautius Lupus has said, in accordance with his modesty, that he would not burden the city whose people and good faith, and the zeal of the city counsellors, for him, he loved; and content with their decision, if they would allow it, he would set it up at his own expense; the city councillors decided thus in accordance with the proposal of Marcius Rufus, perpetual flamen priest, that Plautius Lupus should erect the two-horse-chariot in his honour in whatever place he wished, at his own expense.
Commentary
b) l. 2. Plautius Lupus. Also in 593, ll. 7, 8;
632, ll. 6. 7;
634, ll. 5, 6.
b) l. 18. Iunius ?Afer. Perhaps also in 716.