675. Honours for Caecina Apollinaris

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.56 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.59) of limestone, with moulded panels on three sides.  
Text:
Inscribed on the front (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.58).  
Letters:
First to second centuries A.D. lettering: l. 1, 0.065; l. 2, 0.041; l. 3, 0.047; l. 4, 0.040; ll. 5-8, 0.036. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Ras Si Jùsef, Found in 1912, on the site of a temporary redoubt on one of the hills on the East bank of Wadi Lebdah. Seen by Aurigemma in 1914, but since lost. Not seen. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, III:87. 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:
Previous publications 
[·· ? ··] Caecinae C(aii) f(ilio)
Pap(iria tribu) Apollinari
C(aius) Caecina Artemas
et Caecinia Glyce Pusinna
5et Caecinia Pusinna Arteṃạẹ
filia heredes optimo et
indulgentissimo patro-
no faciendum curaueṛ(unt)
[·· ? ··]CAECINAECF
PAPAPOLLINARI
CCAECINAARTEMAS
ETCAECINIAGLYCEPVSINNA
5ETCAECINIAPVSINNAARTE···
FILIAHEREDESOPTIMOET
INDVLGENTISSIMOPATRO
NOFACIENDVMCVRAVE·
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Caecinae
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aii
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
Apollinari
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Caecina
Artemas
<lb n="4" />
et
Caecinia
Glyce
Pusinna
<lb n="5" />
et
Caecinia
Pusinna
Arte
<unclear reason="" >
mae
</unclear>
<lb n="6" />
filia
heredes
optimo
et
<lb n="7" />
indulgentissimo
patro
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
no
faciendum
<expan>
<abbr>
curaue
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
unt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] Caecina Apollinaris, son of Caius, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria; Caius Caecina Artemas and Caecina Glyce Pusinna and Caecina Pusinna daughter of Artemas, his heirs, had (this) made for a very good and most indulgent patron.

Commentary:

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