245. Votive inscriptions by C. Calpurnius Candidus

Description:
Part of the mosaic pavement of a small shrine. 
Text:
Two tabellae ansatae in mosaic: a) die, w: 1.25 x h: 0.28; b) die, w: 1.33 x h: 0.38. Described by Aurigemma. Not seen. 
Letters:
a) lettering, 0.12. b) size of lettering not recorded.  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Near Fort Trigh Tarhuna. Part of the pavement of a small shrine found in 1912 (12 km. ESE of Tripoli, map ref. L 615655) and described by Aurigemma. Not seen. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927, I:54 ff figs. 4, 6, 7 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 
a
C(aius) Calpurnius
[Can]didus u(otum) s(oluit)
b
[C(aius) Ca]lpurnius
Candidus u(oto) s(oluto)
d(edit) d(edicauit)
a
CCALPVRNIVS
[····]DIDVSVS
b
[·····]LPVRNIVS
CANDIDVSVS
DD
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Calpurnius
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Can
</supplied>
didus
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
otum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
oluit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ca
</supplied>
lpurnius
<lb n="2" />
Candidus
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
oto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
oluto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edit
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edicauit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. Caius Calpurnius Candidus paid his vow.

b. Caius Calpurnius Candidus, having paid his vow gave and dedicated this.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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