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LSA-2170 Base for statue of Lucius Volusius Bassus Cerealis, legate, patron of Lepcis. Lepcis Magna (Tripolitania). 290-294.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Lepcis Magna Province: Tripolitania Region: North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details: Severan Basilica, eastern vestibule
Current Location: Where found
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 122 Width(cm): 68 Depth(cm): 55
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Lucius Volusius Bassus Cerealis, legate Position: Civilian Imperial Office-Holders Gender: Male
Awarder: Council (ordo) of Lepcis Magna Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 290 Latest : 294
MAIN REFERENCE
Tantillo, I. and F. Bigi (eds.), Leptis Magna. Una città e le sue iscrizioni in epoca tardoromana, Cassino 2010, 353-5, no. 24, figs. 7.15, 10.28, pl. VIII

Reynolds, J. M. & J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania. In collaboration with S. Aurigemma, R. Bartoccini, G. Caputo, R. Goodchild, P. Romanelli, Roma 1952, no. 544

INSCRIPTION
Text: L(ucio) Volusio Basso Cereali / c(larissimo) v(iro), legato, totius / innocentiae et /(4) aequitatis et consi/milis moderatio/nis viro, /(7) Lepcimagnenses ex de/creto ordinis mu/nicipi et patrono perpetuo
Trans: To Lucius Volusius Bassus Ceralis, of clarissimus rank, legate, a man of complete integrity and fairness as well as comparable moderation. The people of Lepcis Magna (Lepcimagnenses), by decree of the council (ordo) [set this up], to their fellow citizen and perpetual patron.
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