Funerary inscription praising consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio
Plaster cast.Original: ca. 230 BCE.
CIL VI 1287 = ILLRP 310b = ILS 3. Rome, Museum of Roman CivilizationPhoto by Olga Lyubimova
Funerary inscription praising consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio.
Plaster cast.
Original: ca. 230 BCE.
CIL VI 1287 = ILLRP 310b = ILS 3.
Original: ca. 230 BCE.
CIL VI 1287 = ILLRP 310b = ILS 3.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization
(Roma, Museo della civiltà romana).
Origin:
From the Scipio family tomb on the Via Appia, Rome. Original in the Vatican Museums.
Description:
CIL VI 1287 = ILLRP 310b = ILS 3:
L(ucius) Cornelio(s) L(uci) f(ilius) Scipio / a<e=I>diles co(n)sol ce(n)sor honc oino ploirume co(n)senti<u=O>nt R[omane] / duonoro opt<i=U>mo fuise viro / Luciom Scipione filios Barbati / consol censor a<e=I>dilis hic fuet a[pud vos] / hec cepit Corsica(m) Aleria(m)que urbe(m) / dedet Tempestat<i=E>bus a<e=I>de mereto[d]
Lucius Cornelius Scipio, son of Lucius, aedile, consul, censor. The majority of Romans agrees that Lucius Scipio was the best of worthy men. Son of Barbatus, he was your consul, censor, aedile. He captured Corsica and the city of Aleria and built the temple of Tempests deservedly.
Credits:
(сс) 2009. Photo: Olga Lyubimova (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Text of the description: the inscruption in the museum.
Text of the description: the inscruption in the museum.
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