Aulus Laricus Lepidus Sulpicianus
(0151) Text: [A(ulo) Larico A(ulo) f(ilio) Lepido Sulpiciano] | [sevi]r(o) equi(tum) Rom(anorum) [turm(ae)] VI, Xvir(o) | [st]litib(us) iudic(andis), quaes[t(ori) pr(o)p]r(aetore) provinciae | [C]retae et Cyrenar[um, leg(ato) i]mp(eratoris) Vespasiani | [C]aesaris Aug(usti) leg(ionis) X Freten[sis donato] donis militaribus | [a]b imp(eratore) Vespasiano Caesar[e Augusto et] T(ito) Caesare Aug(usti) f(ilio) | [b]ello Iudaico corona murali, vallari, aurea, hastis puris | [duab(us), v]exillis duobus, tr(ibuno) pl(ebis), leg(ato) provinc(iae) Ponti et Bithyniae | [C]aecinia A(ulo) f(ilio) Larga uxor et | [La]rcia A(ulo) f(ilia) Priscillia filia fecerunt.
Translation: Aulus Laricus Lepidius Sulpicianus son of Aulus, sexvir equitum Romanorum, decemvir stlitibus iudicandis, quaestor propraetor of Crete and Cyrenarum, imperial legate of Vespasianus Caesar Augustus in legio X Fretensis, the dona militaria from Vespasianus Caesar Augustus and his son Titus Caesar Augustus, crown of walls, entrenched, gold, two headless spears, two banners, tribune of the plebes, provincial legate of Pontus and Bithynia. Caecinia son of Aulus, Larga his wife, and Larcia Priscillia daughter of Aulus, her daughter built this. (Trans. Christopher B. Zeichmann)
Provenience: Antium, Italia (Anzio, Italy) 73-100 CE
Commentary: Dąbrowa provides a helpful prosopography of Aulus: born in Crete, but became legate of legio X Fretensis in 69/70 CE under the eventual emperor Titus and thus an important player in the Judaean War. After his time in legio X Fretensis, he became tribunus plebis and eventual even the proconsular legate of Potnus et Bithynia.
Bibliography: CIL 10.6659; ILS 1.987; Edward Dąbrowa, Legio X Fretensis: A Prosopographical Study of Its Officers (I – III c. A.D.), Historia Einzelschriften 66 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993), 25-26.