644. Honours for M. Iunius Caecilianus

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.97 x d: 0.50) of coarse brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on two faces, see also 284; on this face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.26 x h: 0.82).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South side. 
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) 
M(arco) Iunio
Caeciliano
Caecilia
Regina
5mater f(ilio)
piissimo
ex decret(o)
ord(inis) p(osuit)
MIVNIO
CAECILIANO
CAECILIA
REGINA
5MATERF
PIISSIMO
EXDECRET
ORDP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Iunio
<lb n="2" />
Caeciliano
<lb n="3" />
Caecilia
<lb n="4" />
Regina
<lb n="5" />
mater
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
piissimo
<lb n="7" />
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
decret
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ord
</abbr>
<ex>
inis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Marcus Junius Caecilianus; Caecilia Regina, his mother, set (this) up to a most dutiful son in accordance with a decree of the city council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 326)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 326)

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