Description:
Long rectangular base (w: 0.43 x h: 0.70 x d: 1.60) of coarse brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one end face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.25 x h: 0.50).  
Letters:
Late second to third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North 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) 
L(ucio) Pompeio Pap(iria tribu)
Cereali Salui-
ano flamini
splendidissi-
5mus ordo de-
creuit Silia
L(uci) f(ilia) Pompeia ḥ[e]-
res sua pecu[nia]
f̣ecit marit[o]
10 [opti]mo
LPOMPEIOPAP
CEREALISALVI
ANOFLAMINI
SPLENDIDISSI
5MVSORDODE
CREVITSILIA
LFPOMPEIA·[··]
RESSVAPECV[····]
·ECITMARIT[··]
10[·····]MO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Pompeio
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Cereali
Salui
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ano
flamini
<lb n="4" />
splendidissi
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
mus
ordo
de
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
creuit
Silia
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilia
</ex>
</expan>
Pompeia
<unclear reason="" >
h
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
res
sua
pecu
<supplied reason="lost" >
nia
</supplied>
<lb n="9" />
<unclear reason="" >
f
</unclear>
ecit
marit
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<lb n="10" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
opti
</supplied>
mo
</ab>

Translation:

To Lucius Pompeius Cerealis Salvianus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, flamen (priest). Silia Pompeia, daughter of Lucius, his heiress, had this made at her own expense for an admirable husband.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1108)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1108)

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