587. ?Honours for C. Aelius Rufinus
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.83 x h: 0.42, height incomplete) of grey limestone. In material, size, and style it appears to be uniform with 517, and it is perhaps therefore a part of the missing, right-hand balustrade of the Curia.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.50 x ).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.05.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: ?Curia
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- now re-used as a voussoir in the Byzantine Gate.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, 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 II:70. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Aeli
</supplied>
o
<lb
n="2"
/>
Rufino
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ini
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Aquilia
Blaesilla
<lb
n="4"
/>
mater
filio
<lb
n="5"
/>
piissimo
Translation:
To [·· ? ·· Caius Aelius] Rufinus, flamen (priest); Aquilia Blaesilla his mother to a most dutiful son.
Commentary:
ll. 1-3. C. Aelius Rufinus and Aquilia Blaesilla. See 632, n. 1.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.32)
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