Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.45 x h:
0.87) of dark limestone, a pair with 276.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.26 x h:
0.63);
Letters: Second to third centuries CE irregular capitals: 0.06-0.055.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, reused (with 276) in the wall of the passage leading from the West dressing- room to the stage.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Good Fortune growing up and the Good Hour of Hostilia Honesta, daughter of Quintus; Quintus Julius Justus, her grandfather, (scil. set this up) in accordance with a decree of the city-council.
Commentary
Line 2: On Hora Bona see Gasperini (2003)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 277, whence IRT, 2009, 277, EDH 059242; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
