481. Building inscription by Caecilius Diodorus
- Description:
- Three blocks of grey limestone from a trilingual monumental inscription. The Neo-Punic text (Neo-Punic 11) is very uncertain. Block a), w: 0.95 x h: 0.36; block b), w: 0.67 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.41; block c), transcribed by Romanelli, is no longer visible.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Latin text, lapidary capitals, 0.05; Greek text, 0.05.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Ras el-Hammam, 4 km South East of Lepcis, found used in the late fort.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Block a) is still in position by the main entrance; block b) is now in Lepcis Museum; c) no longer visible
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 170; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum IX:802. 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); block c), transcribed by Romanelli, but not seen.
Καικίλιος Διόδωρος ἅμα [·· ? ··]
ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων εὔξατο θ̣[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]υς μόνος τὸν ναὸν [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]δεων αὐτοκράτο[ρ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] καὶ τὸ πρόν[αον]
[·· ? ··]
ΚΑΙΚΙΛΙΟΣΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΣΑΜΑ[·· ? ··]
ΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΕΥΞΑΤΟ·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ΥΣΜΟΝΟΣΤΟΝΝΑΟΝ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ΔΕΩΝΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟ[···· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ΚΑΙΤΟΠΡΟΝ[····]
[·· ? ··]
Translation:
a. Caecilius Diodorus [·· ? ··] of Caesar the shrine [·· ? ··].
Caecilius Diodorus at the same time [·· ? ··] at his own expense vowed [·· ? ··]
b. [·· ? ··] wall above [·· ? ··] holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] alone (nominative) the temple (accusative)[·· ? ··] emperor (case unknown)[·· ? ··]
c. [·· ? ··] greatest (masculine or neuter, dative singular)[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]and the foretemple (nominative or accusative)[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
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