630. Honours for M. Aemilius Rufinus
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.92 x h: 1.52 x d: 0.95).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.58); uniform with 628, 629. A part of the text has been deliberately erased, and a fresh text (568) inscribed on the left-hand face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Punic Market, in the entrance from the Main Street.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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"
/>
<del>
</del>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
Aemilio
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iria tribu
</ex>
<unclear
reason=""
>
R
</unclear>
ufino
<lb
n="3"
/>
<del>
</del>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aii
</ex>
Ae
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
ili
Rufini
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<del>
Aemilia
Victrix
</del>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<del>
mater
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
piissimo
</del>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<del>
perm
</del>
issu
splendidissi
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
mi
ordinis
sua
<lb
n="8"
/>
pecunia
posu
<del>
it
</del>
Translation:
To Marcus Aemilius Rufinus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, son of Caius Aemilius Rufinus; Aemilia Victrix his mother, set this up at her own expense to a most dutiful son, with the permission (text erased to here) of the most splendid city council.
Commentary:
l. 3. Caius Aemilius Rufinus. Also in 629, l. 3.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 321)
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