Base for statue of Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, set up by her husband. Lepcis Magna (Tripolitania). Later third century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Lepcis Magna
Province:
Tripolitania
Region:
North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details:
Macellum, to east of northern tholos
Current Location:
Where found
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Local stone
Re-Use?
No
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
181
Width(cm):
58
Depth(cm):
61
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla
Position:
Family Members
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Lucius Volusius Gallus, duovir, priest and husband of the honorand
Position:
Family Members
DATE
Earliest:
250
Latest :
280
MAIN REFERENCE
Tantillo, I. and F. Bigi (eds.), Leptis Magna. Una città e le sue iscrizioni in epoca tardoromana, Cassino 2010, 405-406, no. 48, figs. 7.15, 10.55, pl. XV
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. 579
To Aemilia Lychnis Clementilla, daughter of Aemilius Arrianus Caecilianus, former duovir, pontifex. L(ucius) Volusius Gallus, Roman knight, former duovir, pontifex, perpetual flamen, on account of the remarkable chasteness of her disposition, to the mother of the Volusii, Appianilla, Bassus and Cerealis, his children, set this up by permission of the most splendid council (ordo).
