Description: Right side of a marble
moulded base
(surviving width
w:
0.50 x h:
1.30 x d:
0.50)
with rudimentary acroteria above.
Text: Inscribed on one face
(die, surviving width
w:
0.29 x h:
0.75)
Letters: Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.065; remainder, 0.055.
Date: c. 166-168 CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
5-7: The restorations are by Jacqes, art. cit.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
In honour of Anicia Pudentilla; [Manlia] Macrina, [her mother] and heiress [---], on the instructions of [---]sens [---], most excellent man (Roman Senator), [on account of her merits] in city affairs.
Commentary
Anicia Pudentilla and [Manlia] Macrina also in 22, lines 6, 7.
Bruttius Praesens: PIR, B 0165 https://pir.bbaw.de/id/6390 (so Jacques, art cit.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 304, whence IRT, 2009, 304; Revised Jacques, 1976 , whence AE 1976.695, EDH 004704; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 825 Leica)
Fig. 2. Drawing, showing possible restoration, F. Jacques