Description: Three similar marble
panels, presumably
related to, and roughly contemporary with, 26.
a) width × surviving ht. w:
0.63 x h:
0.50.
b) width × surviving ht. w:
0.62 x h:
0.66.
c) width × surviving ht. w:
0.63 x h:
0.46.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: a. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.10; line 2, 0.09; b. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.08; line 3, 0.07; c. Lapidary
capitals: line 1, 0.105; line 2, 0.09.
Date: CE 164-166 (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a): To Marcus Annius Verus, son of Augustus
(b): To Lucius Aurelius Commodus, son of Augustus
(c): To Lucilla Augusta
Commentary
These are all children of Marcus Aurelius. Lucilla received the title Augusta at her marriage with Lucius Verus c.164. The panels were presumably cut after that, but before October 166, when M. Annius Verus and Commodus received the title Caesar.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 25, whence IRT, 2009, 25, whence EDH 059021; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. 25b: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 254 Leica)
Fig. 2. 25a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 802 Leica)
Fig. 3. From left: 25b and 25a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219, detail)
Fig. 4. 25c: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219, detail)
Fig. 5. From left: Upper row: 26a, 26b, 26c; Middle row: 19 (above), 25c (below), 17, 128 (above), 64 (below); Lower row: 25b, 25a, 20: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)