520. ?Building inscription of Cn. Calpurnius Piso

Description:
Inscription (w: 6.15 x h: 0.92), formerly of bronze letters.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Capitals, bronze set in lead: 0.26-0.30. 
Date:
Between 5 B.C and 2 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. Let into the grey limestone paving at the North angle of the Forum, immediately in front of the North Temple. 
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 VIII:20, fig. 11; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:9. 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) 
Cn(aeus) Calpurnius Cn(aei) f(ilius) Piso
co(n)s(ul) pontufex proco(n)s(ul)
CNCALPVRNIVSCNFPISO
COSPONTVFEXPROCOS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
aeus
</ex>
</expan>
Calpurnius
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
aei
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Piso
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
pontufex
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Cnaeus Calpurnius Piso, son of Cnaeus, consul, pontifex (priest), proconsul.

Commentary:

l. 1. Calpurnius Piso was cos. ord. 7 B.C. = PIR (2) C 287.

l. 2. Proconsul between 5 B.C. and A.D. 2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 794)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 794)

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