Description: Fragment of black marble, probably from a herm (surviving, w:
0.10 x h:
0.11 x d:
0. 14, no edges).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Lettering: 0.015.
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] ? Olym[pian---] (Perhaps [To Zeus] Olympius [---]).
Commentary
Line 1: The suggestion, in IRT 1952, that this might be a reference to Διὶ Ὀλυμπίῳ did not convince Robert (loc.cit.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 293, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, p.203, PHI 189506, IRT, 2009, 293; EDH 059253; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXX.12)