Description: Five fragments of a marble
panel (the largest (a) w:
0.45 x h:
0.46; (a) and (e) from the lower edge, the remainder no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals. Probably third century CE: 0.06-0.07.
Date: Late third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Found in the Forum Vetus, between the
Temples of Rome and Augustus and of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum: all fragments in 1948; a and b only in 2005.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a.[---] ? concerning ?his brother [---] Pausanias (nominative or ablative) [---] Valerius (nominative or accusative)[---] to the gods below and those above [---]
b. [---] Vibia [---] Pausanias [---] (cases not known)
(c.-e.) Not usefully translatable.
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo, 21.1.34; IRT, 1952, 274, whence IRT, 2009, 274; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 68; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059239; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.30)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo, 2005 (DSCN1684)