Base for statue of Flavius Victor Calpurnius, governor of Tripolitania, patron of Lepcis. Lepcis Magna (Tripolitania). 340-350.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Lepcis Magna
Province:
Tripolitania
Region:
North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details:
Old Forum, near the Severan exedra
Current Location:
in situ
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Yes
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
131
Width(cm):
65
Depth(cm):
56
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Flavius Victor Calpurnius, governor of Tripolitania
Position:
Provincial Governors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Council (ordo) and people (populus) of Lepcis Magna
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
340
Latest :
350
MAIN REFERENCE
Tantillo, I. and F. Bigi (eds.), Leptis Magna. Una città e le sue iscrizioni in epoca tardoromana, Cassino 2010, 377-381, no. 35, fig. 10.40, pl. XII
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. 569
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[- - -]NI[- - -] / [- - -] / [- - -] / [- 12? -]OM[…]M[- 3? -] / (5) [- 12? -] honestiss[im - 3? -] / [- 11? - c]ognoscendi [- 3? -] / [- 12? -] perpenso • qu[- 2? -] / [- 12? -]MEATO[..] ob [- 3? -] /(9) [- c.10 -] qu+ [r]em pub[l](icam) exqu[isit]/[is ..]++isionum g[ene]ribus feceri[t am]/pliorem • instauratori moenium pub[li]/corum • quod eius innumera circa se / ac suos officia supra genitalis c[i]vis / affectum Lepcis magna inclita fide / (15) devotione praestans multifariam sense/rit merito[ru]m eius tenacissime memor per / ordini(s) sui [et] popul[i v]iros Fl(avio) Victori Calpurnio v(iro) p(erfectissimo) / praesidi prov(inciae) Tripol(itanae) patrono suo statuam de/crevit et ob individuum mutui amoris affec/tum eamdem se propter constituit ac dedicavit
Trans:
...most honest ......of judging ...carefully considered who ... made the republic (rem publicam) greater by noteworthy ... renewer of public buildings. Because Lepcis Magna, outstanding in its celebrated loyalty and devotion, experienced on many occasions his innumerable services concerning themselves and theirs, going beyond a native citizen’s affection, and tenaciously mindful of his merits, through the men of its council and people (ordo et populus) decreed a statue for Fl(avius) Victor Calpurnius, a man of perfectissimus rank, governor (praeses) of the province of Tripolitania, its patron, and set it up and dedicated it on account of the indivisible good-will of mutual love between him and it.
