615. Honours for C. Phelyssam

Description:
Upper part of a moulded base (w: 0.74 x h: 0.58 x d: 0.74, height incomplete) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Irregular first century A.D. capitals: 0.025-0.04.  
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside 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:40, fig. 23 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1948, 18 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) 
Senatus p(opulus)q(ue) Lepcitanor(um)
C(aio) Macri f(ilio) C(ai) Annonis
n(epoti) Phelyssam ob colum-
nas et superficie(m) et fo-
5rum stratum honoris
caussa decreuerunt
Balitho [M]acri f(ilius) [C]o[m]-
[modus ---]
SENATVSPQLEPCITANOR
CMACRIFCANNONIS
NPHELYSSAMOBCOLVM
NASETSVPERFICIEETFO
5RVMSTRATVMHONORIS
CAVSSADECREVERVNT
BALITHO[··]ACRIF[··]O[··]
[······---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Senatus
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
opulus
</ex>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
ue
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepcitanor
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Macri
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
ai
</ex>
</expan>
Annonis
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
epoti
</ex>
</expan>
Phelyssam
ob
colum
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
nas
et
<expan>
<abbr>
superficie
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
et
fo
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
rum
stratum
honoris
<lb n="6" />
caussa
decreuerunt
<lb n="7" />
Balitho
<supplied reason="lost" >
M
</supplied>
acri
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
C
</supplied>
o
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
modus
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

The city council and the people of the Lepcitanians decreed (this) in honour of Caius Phelyssam son of Macer, grandson of Caius Anno on account of the columns and the structure above them and the paving of the forum; Balitho Commodus, son of Macer [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 3. Phelyssam. Also in 338, ll. 15-23. Aurigemma, loc. cit. p. 42, gives a genealogical tree.

. 5. Forum stratum. Also in 338, ll. 19-20, and note.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 831)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 831)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1819 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1819 Leica)

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