Description: Two fragments of a marble
table
(w:
0.30
and w:
0.53 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.16) .
Text: Inscribed on the forward edge within an elongated tabella ansata (height of die, h:
0.035)
with a rosette in the right- hand, surviving ansa.
Letters: Lettering 0.02.
Date: Probably second to third centuries CE (lettering, content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
from the Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Asclepius the saviour; Marcus Io[---]ns, his high priest.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 265, whence PHI 189502, IRT, 2009, 265, whence EDH 059233; Benseddik, 2010 69, 60; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.12)