633. Honours for L. Avillius Marsus

Description:
Broken block (w: 1.35 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.35) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 1.18 x h: 0.35). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.08-0.09; ll. 2-3, 0.06-0.07. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah, found on the East bank of the together with a large number of architectural and other fragments, apparently collected there for use in a tower of the fourth century wall.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
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) Auillio C(aii) Auilli Casti f(ilio) Quir(ina tribu) Marso
expostulantibus uniuersis bigam ordo decr(euit)
pater piissimo f(ilio) hon(ore) cont(entus) sua pec(unia) fecit
LAVILLIOCAVILLICASTIFQVIRMARSO
EXPOSTVLANTIBVSVNIVERSISBIGAMORDODECR
PATERPIISSIMOFHONCONTSVAPECFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Auillio
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aii
</ex>
</expan>
Auilli
Casti
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Quir
</abbr>
<ex>
ina tribu
</ex>
</expan>
Marso
<lb n="2" />
expostulantibus
uniuersis
bigam
ordo
<expan>
<abbr>
decr
</abbr>
<ex>
euit
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
pater
piissimo
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
hon
</abbr>
<ex>
ore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
cont
</abbr>
<ex>
entus
</ex>
</expan>
sua
<expan>
<abbr>
pec
</abbr>
<ex>
unia
</ex>
</expan>
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

To Lucius Avillius Marsus, son of Caius Avillius Castus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina; with the whole city calling for it the city council decreed a two-horse chariot; his father, satisfied with the honour, erected it at his own expense to a most dutiful son.

Commentary:

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Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1544 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1544 Leica)

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