07-12-2009, 05:38 PM
Quote:This is all I got both from the site and the museum:That first picture is intriguing, Alexander. It doesn't appear to have been published -- or, at least, it has slipped through the Clauss-Slaby database (as far as I can see).
Calpurnius is not a rare nomen in Pisidian Antioch, but (intriguingly) we seem to have a man who had been tribune in a high-numbered legion -- looks like XXIIII, so a Civil War legion. The next line is interesting, too. (As you may know, dedicatory inscriptions have quite a formulaic text, which is why missing bits can often be restored with some confidence.) Our Calpurnius has perhaps dedicated a temple or shrine, which commonly appear in the inscriptions as templum cum signis or aedes cum signis, or similar, meaning that our man had provided the whole shooting match, building + statues. I cannot see what comes next, though. I'd expect a verb like fecit ("built") or posuit ("set up") or dedit ("handed over") or restituit ("restored") -- maybe someone else can spot what this word is?