Description: Lower left-hand corner of a rectangular base (surviving, w:
0.45 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.29) of coarse grey limestone, uniform with 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, surviving width 0.31).
Letters: Local second to third century capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.045.
Date: Second to third centuries (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Forum, loose beside the North entrance to the Basilica.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Caius Flavius Pudens, son of Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, perpetual flamen] (i.e. priest), the Curia Mercuri, on account of his merits.
Bibliography: Mentioned Bartoccini, 1950 47, 58, whence mentioned AE 1950.152a; IRT, 1952, 123, whence IRT, 2009, 123, whence EDH 021919; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIX.34)