Description: The right-hand face (w:
0.97 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.50) of 644.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.07.
Date: 253-268 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the Genius of the colony Ulpia Traiana Augusta Faithful Septimia Salonina Lepcis Magna; the people of Lepcis, devoted to it (scil. set this up).
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Al Genio della colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Fedele Septimia Salonina di Leptis Magna, i Leptitani devoti.
Commentary
See further Marmouri (2010) at Persée.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1949, 30, whence AE 1950.206; IRT, 1952, 284, whence IRT, 2009, 284; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 83; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059497; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1535 Leica)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 335)
Fig. 4. Face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 5. Face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 6. Face, detail: Tantillo (2005)