Summary
modern: label? naming Babulleia and Tiberius Pontius Lachan.
limestone basin or tabletop.
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Transcription
translation
Babulleia, daughter of Gaius. Tiberius Pontius Lachan, son of Tiberius, knight.
commentary
The inscription is probably a forgery. The lettering is suspicious, the combination (line 2) of the praenomen "Ti(berius)" and the gentilicium "Pontius" is also unattested elsewhere, and "Tiberius" tends to occur with cognomina, which it does not here. Line 3 is unintelligible and its closest parallel is CIL X 269, a falsa included in Mazzella's Sito et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, which likely served as a model, therefore providing a a terminus post quem of 1594 CE. (D'Arms)
Bibliography
D'Arms, “Eighteen Unedited Latin
Inscriptions from Puteoli and Vicinity”, AJA 77 (1973): 154 no. 2
[JSTOR]
AE (1974): 264
Tuck, S. L., Latin Inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum: The Dennison and De Criscio Collections (2005): 170, no. 285
