Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.87 x d:
0.52)
of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within moulded panel
(die, w:
0.27 x h:
0.64).
Letters: Rustic capitals: lines 1-4, 0.05; lines 5-6, 0.045-0.05.
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now in front of Sabratha Museum
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Lucius Aemilius Celsianus bequeathed in his will ten statues to the city. Publius Servilius Pudens executed (scil. the bequest).
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940b, 132 ff., fig. 1, whence AE, 1948.5; IRT, 1952, 240, whence IRT, 2009, 240, whence EDH 019671; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 855 Leica)