Description: Moulded base (w:
0.61 x h:
1. 14 x d:
0.50) of coarse dark grey limestone, the face broken away at the top.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05.
Date: Probably second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, beside the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
5: The reading PAO STRUCTOR is not in doubt; Pao perhaps for Pauo.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] To the genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna; Ulpius Rogatus Pao, builder, gave this as a gift.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 281, whence IRT, 2009, 281, whence EDH 059245; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.27)