Description: Impression of the left-hand side of a lost marble
panel (w:
1.87 x h:
0.90).
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata
Letters: Capitals: line 1, 0.10; line 2, 0.11; line 3, 0.13; line4-5, 0.10.
Date: Between CE 179 and 184: GODOT to GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, re-used in the late paving of the Caldarium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: M(arci) Aure[li f(?)(ilio)] : An unusual form. The letters which follow the M are no longer legible.
2: Presumably Germ(anico) or Sarm(atico) ; trib. pot. V. So Bartoccini, i.e. from 10 Dec.179. The letters in square brackets are no longer legible
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
When [the Emperor Caesa]r, son of the deified Marcus, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Augustus, [Uictor in Germany (or) victor in Sarmatia] was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth (or up to the ninth) time [--- to the God He]rcules, genius of the municipality [--- by decree?] of the municipality [---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 92; IRT, 1952, 286, whence IRT, 2009, 286, whence EDH 059249
Images
None available (2021).