650. Honours for Vitulasia Procula

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.62 x h: 1.05 x d: 0.56) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die. w: 0.26 x h: 0.41).  
Letters:
Late third to fourth centuries A.D. capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
Late third to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre - in the Portico behind it, beside the Temple of the Di Augusti.  
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) 
Vitulasiae
Proc(u)lae con-
iugi karissi-
mae Iulius
5Kamerinus
ex dec(reto) s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis)
VITVLASIAE
PROCLAECON
IVGIKARISSI
MAEIVLIVS
5KAMERINVS
EXDECSO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Vitulasiae
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Proc
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
lae
</abbr>
</expan>
con
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
iugi
karissi
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
mae
Iulius
<lb n="5" />
Kamerinus
<lb n="6" />
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
dec
</abbr>
<ex>
reto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Vitulasia Procla, a very clear wife; Julius Kamerinus, in accordance with a decree of the city council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 291 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 291 Lastre)

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