658. Testamentary honours for C. Aelius Crescens
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.77 x d: 0.74, truncated at top).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.77; height incomplete).
- Letters:
- Capitals, with some Rustic forms: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the street at the South angle of the Curia.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
Aelio
<expan>
<abbr>
Pa
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
p
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
iria tribu
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Crescent
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
ex
testam
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
en
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
to
Aeliae
<lb
n="5"
/>
Myridis
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublius
</ex>
Corneli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
u
</supplied>
s
<lb
n="7"
/>
Balbus
<lb
n="8"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
her
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
es
</ex>
fecit
</ab>
1, Or Pal(atina tribu).
Translation:
To Caius Aelius Crescens, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, in accordance with the will of Aelia Myris; Publius Cornelius Balbus, heir, had this made.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 940)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1549 Leica)
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