Description: Upper part of a moulded base (width x surviving height x depth
w:
0.38 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.35)
of coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die w:
0.15 x h:
0.28);
decorated on two sides with simple scroll and bird ornament.
Socket for statue above.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.035.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio II: in the open space between insula 12 and 13
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
4: Aug(usto) Guey, 1953 so Brouquier-Reddé
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the fruit-bearing Genius of Augustus; Junius Crescens (scil. gave and dedicated this).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952 5, whence Guey, 1953 336, IRT, 2009 5, whence EDH 059006; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Left side: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.26)
Fig. 2. Front face: Ward-Perkins 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.34)